Category Archives: Canada

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A $600 fine has been issued after a gender reveal party led to a wildfire in Alberta. Travis Fairweather, a wildfire information officer, says the party was taking place about 1...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the habit of wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic might be changing Quebecers' views on the province's religious symbols ban. He was asked about Queb...

OTTAWA - The prime minister's intelligence adviser is calling for a expanded definition of national security in an era of global pandemics, climate change and cyberthreats. In a speech sponsored by th...

A council member of the Muslim Association of Canada says thoughts and prayers are not enough. Rania Lawendy says government leaders need to take direct action instead of simply expressing condolences...

CALGARY - Clarence Wolfleg remembers the day his mother took him to school. It was 1956 and for the next 5 1/2 years he attended the Old Sun Residential School outside Gleichen in southern Alberta. "M...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu is regulating UV-emitting and ozone-producing cleaning devices she says pose a significant risk to Canadians and don't live up to their claims that they can help k...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Members of Nunavut's legislative assembly voted to pass a bill Monday night that will change the way police oversight works in the territory. The bill amends the Royal Canadian Moun...

OTTAWA - Alberta's lone New Democrat member of Parliament is asking Ottawa to require that all coal-mining proposals go through a full federal environmental assessment. Heather McPherson says her priv...

OTTAWA - Students say the summer jobs market remains tight despite plans to reopen economic activity, raising concerns about the ability to earn enough to help cover tuition in the fall. Marley Gillie...

OTTAWA - Green party Leader Annamie Paul is calling on the Liberal government to create a national anti-Islamophobia strategy in the wake of an attack in London, Ont., that left four members of a Musl...