Canada

Canada's spy agency plans to offer 'significant' help assessing climate change threat

OTTAWA - A senior Canadian Security Intelligence Service official predicts the spy agency will make a "significant contribution" to understanding the threats posed by a warming planet as climate chang...

Nov 03, 2021

Royal B.C. Museum starts decolonization of galleries this month, says acting CEO

VICTORIA - The Royal British Columbia Museum is closing some sections of its galleries as it embarks on an effort to decolonize the institution. Daniel Muzyka, the museum's acting CEO, says in a state...

Nov 03, 2021

Bank of Canada plans to keep eye on climate change impact on inflation

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada says it plans to more closely monitor how increasingly frequent and severe weather events could impact the prices consumers pay for goods as part of its mandate to keep inf...

Nov 03, 2021

Alberta, with largest oil industry, sends fewer to COP than any other energy province

EDMONTON - The province with Canada's largest oil and gas industry has sent one of the country's smallest delegations to the international climate conference, where emissions from that industry are un...

Nov 03, 2021

Mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., apologizes for residential school repost

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., has apologized for reposting a social media comment that suggested there are "two sides" to the history of residential schools. Walt Cobb made t...

Nov 03, 2021

NDP says scrap Commons' gender-based dress rules, including jackets and ties for men

OTTAWA - MPs are calling for the House of Commons' "archaic" dress code - which requires men to wear a jacket and tie to speak in the chamber - to be scrapped. NDP MPs want the traditional rules on de...

Nov 03, 2021

Desmond inquiry: expert says red flags for domestic violence were ignored, overlooked

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A domestic violence expert says the tragic case of a former soldier in Nova Scotia who killed his family and himself in 2017 was predictable and preventable, based on a review ...

Nov 03, 2021

Health Canada reviewing AstraZeneca antibody drug to prevent symptomatic COVID-19

OTTAWA - AstraZeneca has asked Health Canada to review a new long-acting antibody combination that could be used to prevent symptomatic COVID-19. If approved, it would be the first antibody protection...

Nov 03, 2021

Legault remains confident after voters in Maine say no to Hydro-Québec project

MONTREAL - Voters in Maine have voted No to having a Hydro-Qubec power transmission line pass through the state, but Quebec Premier Franois Legault is still confident the $10-billion power export cont...

Nov 03, 2021

Erin O'Toole and hydropower project rejected: In The News for Nov. 3

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 Nov. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Nov 03, 2021