Canada

Government coffers fuller than expected due to higher inflation, growth: Desjardins

OTTAWA - A new analysis of government finances across the country says revenues were much stronger than expected in the last year due to higher inflation and economic growth. The analysis by Desjardin...

May 10, 2022

Backlogs improved, but patients still waiting too long for elective surgeries

OTTAWA - Canadian hospitals and health systems are still struggling through the ebb and flow of COVID-19, leading to long delays for elective procedures, new data from the Canadian Institute for Healt...

May 10, 2022

Second complainant expected to testify today in Jacob Hoggard sex assault trial

TORONTO - A second woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard is expected to take the stand at his sex assault trial today. Hoggard, the frontman for the band Hedl...

May 10, 2022

Alberta Court of Appeal to rule whether federal assessment law is unconstitutional

CALGARY - Alberta's highest court is set to release a decision today on the province's attempt to declare the federal government's environmental assessment act unconstitutional. The Alberta government...

May 10, 2022

Heartbreaking for military who served in Afghanistan to see Taliban in power: Anand

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Anita Anand has said it is "heartbreaking" for members of Canada's armed forces who served in Afghanistan to see the Taliban back in power. But Anand told a special Parliamen...

May 09, 2022

Pilot involved in Ontario plane crash reported for improper registration: instructor

A British Columbia flight instructor alleges the pilot of a plane that crashed in northern Ontario with two wanted men on board had been advertising flight tours on a plane that wasn't registered for ...

May 09, 2022

Evidence complete in Quebec Halloween murders trial, final arguments on Wednesday

QUEBEC - The presentation of evidence is complete at the trial of the man accused of stalking the streets of Old Quebec on Halloween 2020 and stabbing to death two people and injuring five others. Fin...

May 09, 2022

Waive patents for COVID-19 vaccines, treatment to end pandemic, committee told

OTTAWA - Experts say Canada needs to turn its COVID-19 aid attention to expanding vaccine production everywhere or the virus will continue to run wild, mutate and bring new waves of disease. Dr. Madhu...

May 09, 2022

Marine mammal group confirms sighting of wayward minke whale in Montreal area

MONTREAL - The head of a marine mammal research group is confirming that for the second time in two years a whale has been spotted in the Montreal area. Robert Michaud of the Rseau qubcois d'urgences ...

May 09, 2022

B.C. boy's mom, stepdad facing first-degree murder charges in 'tragic' case: RCMP

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - RCMP say the mother and stepfather of a little boy are being held in custody on first-degree murder charges following painstaking efforts by police on Vancouver Island to get all ...

May 09, 2022