Canada

New poll suggests more than half of Canadians are worried about issues at airports

OTTAWA - Most Canadians believe the country is in a recession and that prices are going to continue to rise for the foreseeable future, according to a new poll. A wide-ranging survey by Leger asked Ca...

Jul 12, 2022

Leadership committee chair scrutinized Patrick Brown's past during vetting: source

OTTAWA - The chair of the federal Conservative party's leadership election organizing committee privately expressed concerns around Patrick Brown's history while vetting him as a potential candidate, ...

Jul 12, 2022

Canada's premiers enter second day of meetings in Victoria

VICTORIA - Canada's premiers are meeting again today in Victoria after a day of talks dominated by health care. Affordability issues and economic recovery are among the other topics on the table durin...

Jul 12, 2022

Does airport preclearance offer a model to help U.S. prevent future mass shootings?

WASHINGTON - In a nation of more than 332 million people now outflanked by their own firepower, a Canadian-born professor is preaching the merits of using risk management to prevent mass shootings. Sh...

Jul 12, 2022

'Really hard to get services': Victims of crime tell Trudeau they need more help

MONTREAL - Victims of violent crime told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal on Monday that they need more support from the federal government. Trudeau, who did not take questions from journalis...

Jul 11, 2022

Ninety-one-year-old woman dies after waiting seven hours for Montreal ambulance

Montreal paramedics say staff shortages are to blame after an ambulance took seven hours to respond over the weekend to a call involving a 91-year-old woman who died before they arrived. Urgences-sant...

Jul 11, 2022

Email shows Lucki initially against naming firearms used in N.S. mass shooting

HALIFAX - RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki initially recommended the federal government not share information on the types of guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting - a stance she apparently shifted...

Jul 11, 2022

Two police officers remain in hospital after a shootout outside a B.C. bank

VICTORIA - A police officer is out of intensive care after being injured in a shootout outside a British Columbia bank nearly two weeks ago. A statement Monday says two Saanich police officers remain ...

Jul 11, 2022

Scan of residential school grounds begins near Port Alberni, B.C.

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A Vancouver Island First Nation says the first phase of scanning for unmarked graves has begun on the grounds of a former residential school near Port Alberni, B.C. The Tseshaht F...

Jul 11, 2022

More than 100 health-care professionals challenge rejection of psilocybin access

Shannon McKenney has had a severe migraine for about 1,500 days in a row. "I have trouble sleeping and I have trouble staying asleep," the musician from Burnaby, B.C., said during a recent phone inter...

Jul 11, 2022