Canada

Nearly 30 per cent of respondents broke COVID-19 restrictions: Canada-wide survey

SASKATOON - Almost 30 per cent of respondents in a newly released Canada-wide survey admitted to breaking COVID-19 rules - and felt justified doing so. The survey by the Canadian Hub for Applied and S...

Jun 28, 2021

Sentencing hearing to begin for Ontario man who killed woman in Edmonton hotel room

EDMONTON - A sentencing hearing is to begin today for an Ontario truck driver convicted of killing a woman who bled to death in an Edmonton hotel room. In February, a jury found Bradley Barton guilty ...

Jun 28, 2021

Temperature in Lytton, B.C., breaks all-time Canadian high set in 1937

VANCOUVER - The temperature in a village in British Columbia's southern Interior reached a scorching 46.1 C this afternoon, marking a new all-time high recorded in Canada. The reading from Environment...

Jun 27, 2021

McKenna retiring from politics, creates possible opening for Mark Carney

OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna has decided not to seek re-election. Her surprise decision opens up some prime political real estate that could become a launching pad for former Ban...

Jun 27, 2021

Four Canadians from three families unaccounted for after Florida condo collapse

At least four Canadians from three different families are unaccounted for after the deadly collapse of a Miami-area condo building, the federal government said Sunday as the official death toll in the...

Jun 27, 2021

Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka dies, leaves a legacy of kindness

OTTAWA - The Jewish Federation of Ottawa says beloved Ottawa Rabbi Reuven Bulka has died at the age of 77. He died Sunday morning in New York City where he had moved to spend time with his five childr...

Jun 27, 2021

Catholics question relationship with church after residential school grave discovery

Bob Hilbig's crisis of confidence in the Roman Catholic Church isn't his first reckoning with the institution that shaped his childhood. It's not even his second. But the discovery over the past month...

Jun 27, 2021

'When we embrace our hijab, we embrace death:' Canadian-Muslims balance faith, safety

EDMONTON - Every time Sana Chaudhry's daughter sees her father getting up to pray, the two-year-old toddler picks up a scarf and waddles behind him to the prayer mat. As she watches her little girl wr...

Jun 27, 2021

Canada's tragic residential-school reckoning could be grim harbinger for U.S.

WASHINGTON - It took just two weeks for the first Indigenous cabinet member in American history to publicly express her deep personal dismay at the grim residential school revelations emanating from n...

Jun 27, 2021

MPs ponder whether virtual proceedings have any place in post-pandemic Parliament

OTTAWA - Like millions of Canadians, members of Parliament are contemplating with mixed emotions the prospect of returning to business as usual after 15 months of working from home. For most MPs, a re...

Jun 27, 2021