Canada

COP26 to accelerate climate action already underway in Canada, experts say

The delegates are trickling home and Glasgow's streets are clearing of protesters. Now, experts say, the real work begins of putting meat and bone to the pledges and commitments made by world leaders ...

Nov 13, 2021

Quebec builds fences around caribou as experts decry lack of habitat protection

MONTREAL - The Quebec government's decision to fence in another endangered caribou herd and to kill any wolves that approach the animals is worrying environmentalists, who say the province is again de...

Nov 13, 2021

Documents detail impacts of federal aid on benefits for seniors, families

OTTAWA - Internal government documents are providing the clearest picture yet of the impact that emergency aid is having on federal support to low-income seniors and families. Thousands of benefit rec...

Nov 13, 2021

Remembrance Day gatherings disrupted in British Columbia

A lawyer says he and his two young daughters left what he thought was a Remembrance Day ceremony In Kamloops after it turned out to be a protest against British Columbia's vaccine mandate. Jay Michi s...

Nov 12, 2021

Alberta deletes Nazi 'both sides' reference in decades-old school guidance document

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is deleting a decades-old reference in a curriculum guidance paper that urges teachers to focus on positive and negative aspects of the Nazi Germany regime. Education...

Nov 12, 2021

Trade Minister Ng disappointed, not daunted by US protectionism

OTTAWA - Canada's trade minister says she's disappointed at some of the protectionist measures being pushed by the new Biden administration in Washington, but she's not discouraged from partnering wit...

Nov 12, 2021

Ottawa to allow return of Canadian who spent years in Syrian prison camps: Justice

OTTAWA - The lawyer for a Canadian woman who spent two years in Syrian prison camps says he's trying to help get her home from Iraq after Ottawa agreed to give her an emergency travel document. Lawyer...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada could authorize vaccine for kids 5-11 in "one to two weeks"

Health Canada says a decision on whether to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine for children will come "in the next one to two weeks," leaving open the possibility that some kids could be at least partially ...

Nov 12, 2021

N.S. court rules law allowing 'dry celling' of prisoners discriminates against women

TRURO, N.S. - A portion of a federal law that kept a New Brunswick woman in a form of solitary confinement for 16 days on suspicion she had concealed drugs inside her vagina has been ruled unconstitut...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada, U.S. say end fossil fuel subsides as COP26 draft called 'weasel words'

OTTAWA - Canada's environment minister says he thinks fossil fuel subsidies should be eliminated as United Nations negotiators wrestle over a final text in the closing hours of the Glasgow climate tal...

Nov 12, 2021