Canada

Dutch Princess Margriet honours Canadian general who liberated her nation in WWII

OTTAWA - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands paid tribute to the Canadian who negotiated the surrender of the Nazis in her nation in 1945. The princess was born in Ottawa, her family having escaped t...

May 13, 2022

CRTC to get new chair as role of broadcast regulator expands

OTTAWA - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says its chair Ian Scott and broadcasting vice-chair are to be replaced within months and Canadian Heritage is now accepting ap...

May 13, 2022

Canadian warship hit with COVID-19 outbreak ahead of overseas deployment

OTTAWA - A Canadian warship has been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 while preparing for an overseas deployment in the Pacific. HMCS Winnipeg is back home in Esquimalt, B.C., after seven sailors test...

May 13, 2022

Inukjuak men's association teaching the next generation of Inuit hunters

INUKJUAK, Que. - Elder Simeonie Ohaituk sits on a caribou skin on the floor of the Unaaq Men's Association in Inukjuak, Que., pulling and cutting a stretchy, cylindrical piece of sealskin. He makes sm...

May 13, 2022

Quebec premier won't participate in English-language debate ahead of provincial vote

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is refusing to participate in an English-language leaders debate ahead of the province's October election. Legault spokesman Ewan Sauves says the premier will...

May 13, 2022

Canadian helping reform Ukrainian military says she's not surprised by its resilience

OTTAWA - Jill Sinclair has been wracked by a combination of anguish, sickness and anger as well as extraordinary pride as she has watched Ukrainians stand fast in the face of Russia's invasion of thei...

May 13, 2022

Canada presses for G7 quick-reaction group on cybersecurity after Ukraine invasion

OTTAWA - Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne is proposing that G7 countries establish a quick-reaction group on cybersecurity to help build up resilience to attacks following the invasion o...

May 13, 2022

Law barring use of extreme intoxication as criminal defence unconstitutional: SCOC

OTTAWA - Canada's highest court has ruled that the law barring the use of automatism, or a state of extreme intoxication, as a defence for some crimes is unconstitutional and called on Parliament to c...

May 13, 2022

Quebec coroner calls public inquiry into Montreal firefighter's drowning

MONTREAL - Quebec's chief coroner is calling a public inquiry into the drowning of a Montreal firefighter last year. Pierre Lacroix, a father of two, died after he was thrown into the St. Lawrence Riv...

May 13, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Pope Francis to visit Edmonton, Quebec City, Iqaluit in July

The Vatican says Pope Francis will stop in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut during his visit to Canada this summer. It says the capital cities of Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit will act as bases for the...

May 13, 2022