Canada

Echaquan's care at Quebec hospital should have been taken more seriously: head nurse

MONTREAL - The head nurse at a Quebec hospital where Joyce Echaquan died last September told a coroner's inquest today the Indigenous patient's care should have been taken more seriously. Echaquan, a ...

May 27, 2021

White House dismisses report that U.S. wants border with Canada reopened next month

WASHINGTON - The White House says no decision has been made about when or how to reopen the border between Canada and the United States. Press secretary Jen Psaki was asked today about a media report ...

May 27, 2021

Right whale protection: Conservation group calls for mandatory speed limits for ships

HALIFAX - An ocean conservation group trying to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales says it wants mandatory speed limits in the Cabot Strait. Oceana Canada says new satellite data indicates...

May 27, 2021

N.S. Mi'kmaq to start season with scaled-down plans for fishery in St. Marys Bay

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - A Mi'kmaq community is scaling down plans for a lobster harvest in southwestern Nova Scotia next week, after Ottawa threatened to pull traps that aren't licensed by the Fisheries ...

May 27, 2021

Mohawk man files rights complaint against Quebec hospital over alleged mistreatment

KANESATAKE - A Mohawk man and his wife are filing a human rights complaint against a Quebec hospital after the elderly man was allegedly discharged from the facility wearing barely any clothes. Winsto...

May 27, 2021

Military deployed to Manitoba to help province hard hit by COVID-19 infections

Members of the military are being deployed to Manitoba where surging COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed the health-care system while all provinces are being urged to use up doses of the AstraZeneca vacci...

May 27, 2021

Human Rights Watch says families of flight 752 victims harassed, intimidated by Iran

OTTAWA - A human rights group says in a new report that Iran has harassed families of passengers killed aboard Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. Human Rights Watch says from last fall until J...

May 27, 2021

G7 foreign ministers condemn Belarus, threaten further sanctions

OTTAWA, Kan. - The G7 says it will ramp up its efforts to hold Belarus accountable for arresting a dissident journalist on board an intercepted jetliner. In a statement today, the countries' foreign m...

May 27, 2021

Rising interest rates could dampen stimulus impact from federal budget, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says an expected rise in interest rates should temper the amount of economic stimulus from the Trudeau Liberals' budget. The report today from Yves Giroux sug...

May 27, 2021

Supreme Court of Canada won't hear challenge of 2015 Alberta election call

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada won't hear a challenge of the former Alberta government's decision to call an election in 2015. A general election was held in Alberta in 2012 and based on the pro...

May 27, 2021