Canada

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals pledge $18 billion for Indigenous communities

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government plans to spend more than $18 billion over the next five years to try to narrow the socio-economic gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and to help t...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Money promised for military sex misconduct fight, NORAD upgrades

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are promising millions of additional dollars to help fight sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces as they seek to address anger and frustration over how the gover...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals seek to win over low-wage workers and students

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking to give workers and students a leg up with a budget that commits billions to training, benefits and debt relief, as those hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemi...

Apr 19, 2021

Federal Budget 2021: Liberals extend COVID-19 aid with election top of mind

OTTAWA - The first federal budget in more than two years extends Ottawa's COVID-19 "lifeline" for workers and struggling businesses another few months as it aims to pull Canada through the pandemic on...

Apr 19, 2021

Families of workers killed in B.C. train derailment allege negligence in lawsuit

FIELD, B.C. - Families of two of three people killed in a train derailment near the British Columbia-Alberta boundary have filed lawsuits alleging negligence. The westbound Canadian Pacific train was ...

Apr 19, 2021

Several votes following budget could trigger an election, at least in theory

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government faces three votes in the wake of Monday's budget, any one of which could theoretically plunge the country into an election.But NDP Leader Jagmeet ...

Apr 19, 2021

University of Victoria women's rowing coach resigns by mutual agreement

VICTORIA - The University of Victoria says the head coach of its women's rowing program has resigned effective immediately. In a statement posted on the school's varsity athletics website, it says the...

Apr 19, 2021

All of Iqaluit's COVID-19 cases are adults, most in their 20s and 30s

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says all those currently infected with COVID-19 in Iqaluit are adults. Dr. Michael Patterson also says about three-quarters of them are in thei...

Apr 19, 2021

Alberta scientists urge adoption of bill that would protect against coal mining

EDMONTON - Some 35 scientists from the University of Alberta are urging the provincial government to rethink its plans for expanding coal-mining in the Rocky Mountains. The researchers, all from the u...

Apr 19, 2021

Quebec and Ontario impose travel restrictions to slow surging COVID-19 variants

Ontario and Quebec have imposed new interprovincial travel restrictions in an effort to slow the surging COVID-19 variants that are putting increasing strain on Ontario's hospital system. Starting tod...

Apr 19, 2021