Category Archives: Canada

Shortages of some baby formula in Quebec due to panic buying, U.S. supply issues
MONTREAL - When Catherine Labrecque-Baker went to purchase hypoallergenic baby formula in mid-April for her six-month-old baby, her Quebec City pharmacist told her there was none left. In response, La...
May 17, 2022

Multiple reports say Marner's SUV was stolen in an armed carjacking in west Toronto
There are multiple reports that an SUV belonging to Toronto Maple Leafs star Mitch Marner has been stolen in a carjacking in the city's west end. The Toronto Sun, Global News and City TV all quoted un...
May 16, 2022

Joly condemns Israeli police behaviour at Palestinian journalist's funeral
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is condemning as appalling images of Israeli police pushing and hitting mourners at the funeral of an Al Jazeera journalist who was shot while working in ...
May 16, 2022

Bloc, NDP support Tory bid to revive committee studying Canada-China relations
OTTAWA - MPs have voted to re-establish a special committee on Canada-China relations. The committee was first set up in 2019 in light of prolonged diplomatic friction with China, with a mandate to ex...
May 16, 2022

Métis leader calls for Queen to apologize for residential schools
The president of the Mtis National Council says the Queen should apologize for residential schools to help survivors and their families heal. Cassidy Caron says residential school survivors told her t...
May 16, 2022

Calgary and Edmonton city councils make friendly wager on NHL playoffs
CALGARY - The Battle of Alberta is back with a friendly hockey wager between the city councils in Calgary and Edmonton. The Calgary Flames will play the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL's Western Conference...
May 16, 2022

Alberta man pleads guilty to killing woman and her 16-month-old son
HINTON, Alta. - An Alberta man has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a woman and her 16-month-old son. Robert Major entered the pleas in court today, and prosecutors...
May 16, 2022

Residential school site searches so far just 'tip of the iceberg': Miller
OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says the searches on the grounds of former residential schools to date are just the beginning. Nearly one year ago, the Tk'emlps te Secwpemc Na...
May 16, 2022

Tory leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre denounces 'white replacement theory'
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre is denouncing the "white replacement theory" believed to be a motive for a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., as "ugly and disgusting hate-mongering." In a statement today, the ...
May 16, 2022

Saskatchewan First Nation asks for Army Rangers to help in search for missing boy
PRINCE ALBERT - A Saskatchewan First Nation says it has asked the federal government to send in the Canadian Rangers to help search for a missing five-year-old boy. Chief Fabian Head of Red Earth Cree...
May 16, 2022