Canada

'Horrifically, grisly scene': Remains of woman found near Winnipeg apartment block

WINNIPEG - Police say a "horrifically, grisly scene" near an apartment building where the partial remains of a woman were discovered this week has also taken investigators to a landfill. Const. Rob Ca...

May 19, 2022

Health minister pledges support for Ukraine as WHO confirms attacks on health care

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is pledging to rouse support from his international colleagues for Ukraine's besieged health system. Duclos penned a letter to his Ukrainian counterpart, Dr. ...

May 19, 2022

Canada to ban China's Huawei Technologies from 5G networks, sources say

OTTAWA - Senior government officials say the Liberals have decided to ban Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies from Canada's long-awaited blueprint for next-generation mobile networks. The development o...

May 19, 2022

RCMP seeking accommodations for officers testifying at N.S. mass shooting inquiry

HALIFAX - The RCMP say the commission of inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia would be violating its own rules if Mounties who have endured trauma were called to testify without some for...

May 19, 2022

Quebec coroner says many people share blame for high death toll in COVID first wave

MONTREAL - Quebec's coroner says there is plenty of blame to go around for the deaths of 47 residents of a private Montreal-area long-term care home during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cor...

May 19, 2022

Supreme Court to hear case about access to Premier Doug Ford's mandate letters

Canada's top court will hear Ontario's appeal to block the release of mandate letters sent by the premier to his cabinet ministers nearly four years ago, although Doug Ford insisted Thursday that the ...

May 19, 2022

Russian troops planted mines in Ukraine's fields to ruin harvest: Sajjan

OTTAWA - Harjit Sajjan, the international development minister, says Russia has planted mines in Ukrainian fields to prevent farmers from cultivating their crops. Speaking after a meeting of G7 develo...

May 19, 2022

Jail 'Freedom Convoy' organizer Tamara Lich again, Crown argues in Ottawa court

OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich is accused of breaching her bail conditions and the Crown argues she should go back to back in jail until her trial. Lich was initially denied bail afte...

May 19, 2022

Kenney pushed out for not being 'extreme enough' troubling trend: Boissonnault

OTTAWA - A Liberal cabinet minister from Alberta says Jason Kenney is the latest conservative leader to be pushed out by party supporters for not being "extreme enough." Federal Tourism Minister Randy...

May 19, 2022

Expert says N.B. police officer who fatally shot woman was right to use lethal force

FREDERICTON - An expert in Canadian policing says the New Brunswick officer who killed a 26-year-old Indigenous woman during a wellness check two years ago was following police training. Chris Butler ...

May 19, 2022