Canada

Report to be released that examines four years of overdose deaths in British Columbia

VICTORIA - A report by a death review panel investigating the overdose crisis in British Columbia was scheduled to be released today by the province's chief coroner. A statement from the coroner's off...

Mar 09, 2022

'Rewriting history': Military official says NATO trying to counter Russian propaganda

CALGARY - A Canadian military official says the war over Ukraine is being fought on two fronts - armed conflict and disinformation. And more work needs to be done to silence the Russian propaganda mac...

Mar 09, 2022

Biden's billion-dollar cleanup pledge puts Great Lakes back in environment limelight

WASHINGTON - Long before climate change seized the global conscience, when the environment struggled for political traction, North America's Great Lakes were a dumping ground - a toxic monument to ind...

Mar 09, 2022

Trudeau, German Chancellor Scholz to meet today in Berlin

BERLIN - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Berlin today for private meetings with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the NATO alliance continues to pressure Russia to end its illegal invasion in Ukrai...

Mar 09, 2022

Lululemon founder starting new venture to find cure for type of muscular dystrophy

VANCOUVER - The founder of athletic wear firm Lululemon Athletica is donating $100 million to help find the cure for a rare genetic disorder. Chip Wilson was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscula...

Mar 08, 2022

'We were 100 per cent sure.' Mounties mistakenly thought N.S. gunman had shot himself

HALIFAX - It is one of the most perplexing aspects about the mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives: after killing 13 people in Portapique, N.S., late on April 18, 2020, the killer decided...

Mar 08, 2022

Winnipeg zoo giving COVID-19 vaccine to 55 animals including tigers and snow leopards

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg zoo is giving a COVID-19 vaccine to some of its animals that are considered to be at greater risk of contracting the virus. The Assiniboine Park Zoo says it has begun using a v...

Mar 08, 2022

Experts question Tory MP's bill to protect political beliefs in Human Rights Act

OTTAWA - Legal experts are questioning the necessity of a Conservative MP's bill to add political beliefs and activity to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights ...

Mar 08, 2022

Who's in, who's out and who else may enter the Conservative party leadership race

OTTAWA - With Sept.10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Those running h...

Mar 08, 2022

Canadian military trainers deal with mixed emotions as Ukrainians defend from Russia

OTTAWA - Lt.-Col. Sarah Heer says it is absolutely "excruciating" watching from afar as friends and comrades that she helped train in the Ukrainian military a year ago are now forced to fight for thei...

Mar 08, 2022