Canada

First Nation opens water treatment plant, ending decades-old drinking water advisory

SHOAL LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA - Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is welcoming clean, running water for the first time in nearly 25 years. The First Nation on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary is celebrating today...

Sep 15, 2021

Courses to prevent office harassment mandatory for new MPs by end of year

OTTAWA - Newly elected MPs will be required to take a training course to prevent sexual harassment in their offices. The awareness course will educate new MPs on what counts as harassment - and how to...

Sep 15, 2021

Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region

The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...

Sep 15, 2021

One dead after helicopter rolls on landing near Nunavut gold mine

CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut - One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a cont...

Sep 15, 2021

Stray bullet, not targeted shooting, to blame for officer's injury: Montreal police

Montreal police say gunfire last month outside an area hospital that was initially thought to have targeted officers was actually stray bullets. The shooting took place at about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 24 i...

Sep 15, 2021

On the campaign trail and August inflation numbers : In The News for Sept. 15

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 Sept. 15 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Sep 15, 2021

B.C. man who murdered a family of six on camping trip in 1982 seeking parole

BOWDEN, ALBERTA - A man convicted of the mass murder of a family nearly 40 years ago is to seek his release once again when he appears today before the Parole Board of Canada. David Shearing, who now ...

Sep 15, 2021

Campaign has Trudeau in Halifax, O'Toole in Quebec and Singh in Ontario

The three main party leaders are in Eastern and Central Canada today, a day after a new poll suggested the already close race is getting even tighter. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau gets his day starte...

Sep 15, 2021

More than 150,000 people in Canada experience 'long COVID' symptoms: report

TORONTO - More research is needed to understand the so-called "long COVID" condition and the burden it poses on the health-care system, a science advisory group said in a report Tuesday. The Ontario C...

Sep 14, 2021

Teal Cedar Products asks B.C. court for one-year injunction extension at Fairy Creek

NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia forestry company is in court applying for a one-year extension of an injunction against ongoing old-growth logging protests on southern Vancouver Island. A lawyer fo...

Sep 14, 2021