Canada

Migrants across Canada call on Ottawa for action on regularization, permanent status

TORONTO - Rallies are planned in cities across Canada today to call on Ottawa to extend permanent status to undocumented migrants. Migrants and advocacy groups will also be calling on the government t...

Sep 18, 2022

Elections Quebec takes to TikTok, hoping quirky campaign inspires turnout

MONTREAL - Elections Quebec is flipping their usual campaign advertising script in hopes that some fresh messaging will propel more voters out to the polls next month. The province's elections organiz...

Sep 18, 2022

Trudeau meets UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, other world leaders in London

LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his British counterpart Sunday as world leaders converged on London for Queen Elizabeth's funeral. Trudeau was at 10 Downing Street early in the afterno...

Sep 18, 2022

Advocates of windfall tax on oil and gas sector can now point to EU for inspiration

OTTAWA - Proponents of imposing a windfall tax on the Canadian oil and gas industry now have another global power setting precedent for the policy. On Wednesday, the European Commission proposed levyi...

Sep 18, 2022

Queen's death leaves questions about vacated military patronage posts

OTTAWA - Queen Elizabeth's death has left more than a dozen Canadian Armed Forces units without a patron, and prompted one expert to question how such appointments will be filled going forward. The De...

Sep 18, 2022

Quebec election: 880 candidates in the running for Oct. 3 election

MONTREAL - Quebec party leaders are fanned out across the province on Day 22 of the election campaign. Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault will be in the Quebec City-area riding of Portneuf,...

Sep 18, 2022

Restoring the culinary and cultural bounty of ancient Indigenous sea gardens in B.C.

SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. - A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks. Fountains of water s...

Sep 18, 2022

Trudeau and ministers to attend next week's 77th Session of the U.N. General Assembly

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to New York next week to attend the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly from Sept. 20-22. Trudeau's office issued a statement on Satu...

Sep 17, 2022

South Korean president to visit Canada, talk trade, energy and security with Trudeau

OTTAWA - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is set to discuss trade and security issues with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a scheduled visit to Canada next week. Yoon is to visit Toronto and ...

Sep 17, 2022

Quebec election: Legault won't release study on Quebec City-Lévis third-link project

MONTREAL - Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault says he won't release a study into the impact of a "third link" crossing the St-Lawrence River from Quebec City to its south shore. Questions a...

Sep 17, 2022