Canada

'Largest spiritual Indigenous gathering' to return during Pope's visit to Alberta

LAC STE. ANNE, Alta. - Rev. Garry LaBoucane remembers going to Wakamne - or God's Lake - during the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage as a boy. "It was always a family tradition," the 74-year-old said in an in...

Jun 26, 2022

Quebec homeowners say Ottawa must address decades of erosion caused by ship traffic

VERCHRES, Que. - Every year, 100-year-old Anglique Beauchemin watches more of her land crumble into the St. Lawrence River. From her home along a busy stretch of river in Verchres, Que., on Montreal's...

Jun 26, 2022

'In a crisis': Deaths of Indigenous women in Winnipeg spark calls for safe housing

Lori Ann Mancheese always wanted a home. But the 53-year-old mother of five from Manitoba's Ebb and Flow First Nation died before her dream could come true. Earlier this month, her remains were found ...

Jun 26, 2022

Climate goals may be at odds with G7 response to fallout from Russian invasion

GARMISCH, Germany - G7 leaders will spend part of their upcoming summit discussing how to end reliance on oil and gas in general, and Russian oil in particular, in response to the European energy cris...

Jun 26, 2022

Policy revamp might save lives in next heat dome, but so could community, say experts

VICTORIA - She died in the arms of firefighters. The 96-year-old woman now lingers in the memory of Chief Jim Ogloff of the Coquitlam Fire Department, a reminder of the impact of last summer's heat do...

Jun 26, 2022

Indigenous conservation Canada's way of the future, Guilbeault says

Tanya Ball began her career as a social worker for the Kaska Dene First Nation. Now she runs a land guardian program, working to monitor and protect a vast stretch of the band's northern British Colum...

Jun 25, 2022

Uneven economic recovery does not bring all Canadian women with it: experts

OTTAWA - After more than two years of economic turbulence through the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's workforce participation overall appears quite rosy for women. The share of women aged 25 to 54 years o...

Jun 25, 2022

Rwanda to Germany: Canada to elevate small Commonwealth nations' concerns at the G7

KIGALI, Rwanda - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada will be bringing the concerns of smaller Commonwealth nations to the G7 leaders in Germany Sunday, particularly the growing threat of ...

Jun 25, 2022

RCMP reform would prevent political interference, criminologists say

OTTAWA - An Ottawa criminologist says questions about whether political pressure was placed on the RCMP commissioner in the Nova Scotia shooting investigation illustrate why Brenda Lucki should not re...

Jun 25, 2022

Experts caution against becoming 'air-conditioned society' as heat waves get hotter

Hundreds of people who perished during the historic heat wave in British Columbia last summer died in homes ill-suited for temperatures that spiked into the high 30s and beyond for days,a report by B....

Jun 25, 2022