Canada

Craft beer and wine sectors calling for changes to excise duties in budget

OTTAWA - Canadian craft alcohol producers are hoping excise tax changes are brewing in the federal finance minister's office. Industry representatives say craft producers need relief from excise dutie...

Apr 02, 2022

Hajdu hopes long-term boil water advisories lifted by 2025, end of Liberal-NDP deal

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu hopes Canada will be able to lift its remaining long-term drinking water advisories by 2025 - the year a deal between the NDP and the Liberal governme...

Apr 02, 2022

Green Party of Canada MP Elizabeth May says she has tested positive for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Green Party of Canada MP Elizabeth May says she has tested positive for COVID-19. May says on Twitter that she found out on Thursday and is very sick. She says she isolated herself when she s...

Apr 01, 2022

U.S. authorities issue final order allowing P.E.I. table potatoes back over border

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has lifted the final barrier that was keeping table potatoes from Prince Edward Island out of the United States. A final federal order posted today clea...

Apr 01, 2022

As Pope Francis prepares to come to Canada, a look at past papal visits

OTTAWA - Standing before a room of nearly 200 Indigenous delegates at the Vatican, Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools. The Pope said he felt sha...

Apr 01, 2022

Reactions to the Pope's apology for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools

Pope Francis apologized at the Vatican on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools. The pontiff, speaking in Italian, asked for God's forgiveness for the deplorable conduct o...

Apr 01, 2022

Muslims ready to celebrate Ramadan together after COVID-19 restrictions lifted

TORONTO - Mohsin Patel has been working hard to prepare a program that will be providing free meals for those in need during the month of Ramadan. The member of the mosque committee at the Mecca Islam...

Apr 01, 2022

'Never losing hope:' Former national chief says apology reflects decades-long fight

ROME - Phil Fontaine says he had hoped a long-sought apology would finally come this week when an Indigenous delegation met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. But the former national chief says he was ...

Apr 01, 2022

Public health notice warns of norovirus outbreak linked to B.C. oysters

VANCOUVER - The Public Health Agency of Canada says raw oysters from British Columbia have been linked to hundreds of cases of norovirus in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. The agency has issu...

Apr 01, 2022

Future waves of COVID-19 likely as Canada undergoes "period of transition": Tam

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer warned Friday the country is in a period of pandemic transition that might see further waves of COVID-19 cases this year. "We anticipate that progress wil...

Apr 01, 2022