Category Archives: Canada
Saskatchewan inquest into mass stabbing enters second week
MELFORT, Sask. - The province is expected to provide information about how it responded to a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation as a coroner's inquest enters its second week. The inquest is ...
Jan 22, 2024
Liberals to hold auto-theft summit in February amid uptick in stolen cars sent abroad
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have announced a national summit on auto theft aimed at getting provinces and industry officials together to address the growing issue of cars being stolen and shipped ab...
Jan 21, 2024
MPs who visited West Bank urge action against "constant humiliation" of Palestinians
OTTAWA - MPs returning from a visit to the West Bank argue Canada needs to do more to prevent escalating tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. A group of three NDP and two Liberal MPs spent last...
Jan 21, 2024
Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway opening scaled back and delayed to Sunday afternoon
OTTAWA - Skaters eager to hit the ice on Ottawa's iconic Rideau Canal will have to wait a few hours longer and will have a shorter stretch to glide on than previously expected. The National Capital Co...
Jan 21, 2024
U.S. gun crime, health insurance woes scare off Canadian diplomats, union says
OTTAWA - The union that represents Canadian diplomats abroad says Global Affairs Canada should consider boosting compensation for those posted to the United States because they face increased risk of ...
Jan 21, 2024
Economics, affordability top agenda as Liberal cabinet meets in Montreal
OTTAWA - Officials say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be putting a big emphasis on policies that help Canada's middle class as he prepares to chair a cabinet retreat in Montreal over the next thre...
Jan 21, 2024
No recharge: long-term Prairie drought raises concerns over groundwater levels
EDMONTON - In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there's a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried. The Marmot Creek well in Kananaskis Co...
Jan 21, 2024
Vancouver's Bar Haifa is a 'love letter' to co-owners' Jewish and Palestinian roots
VANCOUVER - The collaborators behind restaurants in Vancouver and Toronto have Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli roots, and acknowledge they don't always agree. "Imagine 38 tastings for a falafel, and t...
Jan 21, 2024
Decade after fatal fire, some Quebec seniors' residences unable to install sprinklers
MONTREAL - Ten years after 32 people died in a fire that ripped through a residential complex for seniors in rural Quebec, around a quarter of all private seniors' residences in the province are still...
Jan 20, 2024
Police say two men from Ontario arrested after shots fired at home north of Montreal
LORRAINE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say two men from Ontario have been arrested after an investigation into shots fired at a home north of Montreal led to an early-morning police chase. Police s...
Jan 20, 2024
