Canada

Quebec promises new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools

QUBEC - The Quebec government says it will table legislation to strengthen secularism in schools, following the latest in a series of reports about Muslim religious practices appearing in some of the ...

Dec 06, 2024

Manitoba premier says conservation officers to help patrol Canada-U.S. border

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to have conservation officers help patrol efforts along the Canada-United States border. Premier Wab Kinew says the officers would serve as extra eyes an...

Dec 06, 2024

Canada's housing crisis leads to more unsafe housing for victims of domestic violence

HALIFAX - Women's advocates say provincial and federal governments need to step up efforts to create housing for people escaping gender-based violence because too many women are forced to remain in un...

Dec 06, 2024

Man arrested in Quebec for alleged plot to kill Jews in NYC being held in Rimouski

MONTREAL - A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City is being held in a detention centre hundreds of kilometres from Montreal, where he says the French-speak...

Dec 06, 2024

Conservatives intervene to delay debate on NDP motion in House of Commons

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are stalling an NDP opposition day motion in the House of Commons, after the New Democrats intervened in the Tories' opposition day on Thursday. The NDP was set to begin deb...

Dec 06, 2024

Canada's top court dismisses appeal in Ontario drug trafficking case

Canada's highest court has dismissed the appeal of a Guelph, Ont., man convicted of drug trafficking after police impersonated a drug dealer in order to arrest him. Dwayne Alexander Campbell argued po...

Dec 06, 2024

Canada's Arctic policy draws on international collaboration to face emerging threats

OTTAWA - Canada has unveiled an Arctic foreign policy that commits to increasing domestic and international collaboration to combat emerging foreign threats in the North. The policy, released by Globa...

Dec 06, 2024

3 climbers from US and Canada believed to have died in a fall on New Zealand mountain

OTTAWA - Officials in New Zealand says a Canadian is one of three mountain climbers who are believed to have died in a fall on Aoraki, the country's tallest peak. A state from Aoraki Area Commander In...

Dec 06, 2024

'It's not a right' — Kenya blocking Canadians from resettling LGBTQ+ refugees

NAIROBI - The United Nations says the Kenyan government is blocking Western countries like Canada from resettling LGBTQ+ refugees, leaving hundreds of desperate people languishing in dangerous refugee...

Dec 06, 2024

Statistics Canada to release November labour force survey today

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release its November jobs report this morning. According to LSEG Data & Analytics, economists polled by Reuters expect the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.6 p...

Dec 06, 2024