Canada

RCMP claims that emergency alerts cause public panic are unfounded: N.S. inquiry

HALIFAX - Fears that the public would panic if they receive alerts during dangerous situations are more myth than reality, experts on emergency alert systems said Thursday at the public inquiry invest...

May 12, 2022

Plane that crashed with fugitives was overweight, heading for Toronto: Witness

VANCOUVER - A woman who knew the pilot of a fatal flight that killed two men wanted in separate murder plots says he told her he was heading for Toronto and was concerned about the plane's weight. The...

May 12, 2022

B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says

Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research. A recently publi...

May 12, 2022

White House, senators have 'sympathy' for Canada's position on Line 5, says Wilkinson

WASHINGTON - Canada's natural resources minister says he is hearing "significant sympathy" from U.S. officials for the plight of the Line 5 pipeline. Jonathan Wilkinson is in Washington, D.C., for mee...

May 12, 2022

Latvia seeks Canadian support for expanded, permanent NATO presence in Baltics

OTTAWA - Latvia's prime minister is in Ottawa today seeking Canada's support for an expanded, permanent NATO force in his country and fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia. In an interview, Krijn...

May 12, 2022

Family of Montreal man killed by police in 2017 reaches settlement with city

MONTREAL - The family of a man shot dead by Montreal police has reached a settlement with the city in connection with a lawsuit they filed over his death. Pierre Coriolan died on June 27, 2017, when p...

May 12, 2022

Parks Canada recovers 45 fossils stolen from Burgess Shale, levies $20,000 fine

LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA - A Quebec resident has been fined $20,000 for taking 45 fossils from three national parks in the Rocky Mountains, including an internationally known fossil site. Parks Canada say...

May 12, 2022

Tory Leadership Debate and US Supreme Court to Meet: In The News for May 12, 2022

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 12, 2022. ... What we are watching in Cana...

May 12, 2022

Anti-abortion rally to assemble on Parliament Hill amid leaked U.S. court draft

OTTAWA - An annual anti-abortion rally is set to converge on Parliament Hill today, a demonstration that typically attracts thousands. The March for Life protest comes as the re-emergence of the landm...

May 12, 2022

What federal Conservative leadership candidates can learn from Kenney and Alberta

EDMONTON - As federal Conservative leadership candidates travelled to Alberta this week, they arrived in a fractured Tory heartland. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, who won a majority government in 2019...

May 12, 2022