Canada

Quebec looks beyond hydroelectricity as last planned megaproject set to wrap

MONTREAL - Quebec's hydro dams have long provided its residents cheap electricity and bragging rights in the race to reduce global carbon emissions, with Premier Franois Legault suggesting the provinc...

Dec 21, 2021

'The sound of home': Indigenous radio station celebrates 50 years of programming

WINNIPEG - It's 6 p.m. on a Friday night and the call lines at one of Canada's largest Indigenous radio stations are all flashing. That will be the case for the next four hours as hundreds of listener...

Dec 21, 2021

CP NewsAlert: NHL announces league-wide shutdown from Wednesday to Christmas Day

The NHL and the National Hockey League Players' Association have announced the suspension of all operations from Wednesday to Christmas Day amid an increase of positive COVID-19 tests. All team facili...

Dec 20, 2021

Foreign Affairs Minister Joly tests positive for COVID-19 and is isolating

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has tested positive for COVID-19 after taking a rapid test. Joly disclosed the result on Twitter, saying she is in isolation awaiting the result of a PCR...

Dec 20, 2021

Canada's electric vehicle charging ambitions falling short, industry group says

OTTAWA - The federal government is promising to spend close to $880 million over the next four years to build about 65,000 new charging stations for electric or fuel cell-powered passenger vehicles. B...

Dec 20, 2021

Think you have COVID-19 during the Omicron wave? Here's what to do

OTTAWA - Nearly two years into the pandemic, most people know what to do when they feel ill to stop the spread of COVID-19. The highly transmissible new variant has thrown some of the old rules for a ...

Dec 20, 2021

'Guided by Canada': NASA space telescope with Canadian components to launch this week

Right now, in a solar system far, far away, seven planets orbit a red dwarf star. Three are the right distance from their sun for liquid water to be present. One of them, known as Trappist 1-F, also h...

Dec 20, 2021

Prosecutor expects 29 sex misconduct cases to stay in military justice system

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor says he expects more than two dozen criminal cases in which sexual misconduct charges have already been laid will remain with the military's justice ...

Dec 20, 2021

Key B.C. highway reopens to truck traffic after severe flood damage

VANCOUVER - A major highway linking Metro Vancouver and southern British Columbia to the rest of the province has reopened about a month after severe flooding damaged the route in several areas. The B...

Dec 20, 2021

More restrictions, more boosters in provinces today as Omicron threat looms

Canada's battle to contain the Omicron variant continues on multiple fronts today, with three provinces reintroducing public health restrictions and a fourth expanding eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine...

Dec 20, 2021