Canada

Displaced Port aux Basques residents face uncertain future after Fiona

CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. - Denise Anderson shouted a list of items into her phone over the sound of pouring rain, along with instructions on how to find them: clean socks, a new pack of underwea...

Sep 27, 2022

Quebec election: Liberal leader goes on media blitz in final week of campaign

MONTREAL - Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is on a media blitz today to raise her profile ahead of next week's election. Anglade is scheduled to conduct no fewer than six media interviews in M...

Sep 27, 2022

Canadians think the call came from inside the White House: Jan. 6 hearings to resume

WASHINGTON - A new poll suggests one in three Canadians have been keeping close tabs on the Jan. 6 hearings in the United States - and that nearly three in four blame Donald Trump for the riots. Leger...

Sep 27, 2022

Maine power workers cross border without incident to help in Nova Scotia

OTTAWA - Nova Scotia Power says there were no issues delaying American power crews from crossing the border to help repair the electrical grid from the devastation of hurricane Fiona. On Sunday, the u...

Sep 26, 2022

Former top civil servant, medical association president appointed as senators

OTTAWA - Ian Shugart, a longtime bureaucrat and the country's top civil servant during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been tapped for a seat in the Senate. Dr. Gigi Osler, a Winnipeg sur...

Sep 26, 2022

In Port aux Basques, N.L., residents reeling after Fiona destroys dozens of homes

CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. - Jocelyn Gillam knows she's lucky to be alive after coming face-to-face with the post-tropical storm that destroyed part of her southwestern Newfoundland town and nearl...

Sep 26, 2022

Canadian Armed Forces spearheads Ottawa's post-Fiona response to Atlantic Canada

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is spearheading federal efforts to support post-Fiona recovery efforts across Atlantic Canada. Here is a look at what Ottawa is doing to help those affected by the hurri...

Sep 26, 2022

Canadian Food Inspection Agency raises alarm as spotted lanternfly pest nears border

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is asking Canadians to keep an eye out for an invasive bug that could spell disaster for the country's wineries and fruit growers. The spotted lanternfly i...

Sep 26, 2022

MPs to study Access to Information system, federal 'culture of secrecy'

OTTAWA - The House of Commons information, ethics and privacy committee plans to look at Canada's much-maligned access-to-information regime - the latest in a long line of studies of a system intended...

Sep 26, 2022

Young Indigenous leaders speak on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Senate

OTTAWA - Dr. Meghan Beals says she wants Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to resemble Remembrance Day. The Prince Edward Island physician is one of five young Indigenous leaders who ...

Sep 26, 2022