Category Archives: Canada
Vancouver skateboard community longs for indoor space as city policy tries to keep up
VANCOUVER - When parents come into Michelle Pezel's skateboard shop on Vancouver's Main Street around Christmas, they often ask where their kids can go to practise. Pezel, who co-owns Antisocial Skate...
Dec 25, 2023
Quebec judge authorizes class action lawsuit alleging abuse at Indigenous day schools
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Indigenous people who allege they received lower-quality education than other Quebecers at day schools where...
Dec 25, 2023
More Quebec public unions have tentative deals on working conditions, but not on pay
MONTREAL - Unions representing more than 200,000 Quebec government workers reached tentative working condition deals with the government over the weekend, but that may not be enough to stave off a str...
Dec 24, 2023
Police resume search for Quebec girl, four, who fell in river while sledding
DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Que. - Quebec provincial police say the search for a four-year-old girl who fell in a river in the province's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region resumed this morning. Rescuers have bee...
Dec 24, 2023
Montreal police say basilica fire not arson, investigation shows cause was electrical
Montreal police say an early morning fire outside the city's Notre-Dame Basilica was not intentionally set. Police spokeswoman Const. Vronique Dubuc says arson investigators were at the scene this mor...
Dec 24, 2023
More Canadians to feel pinch of high rates in 2024, making way for lower inflation
OTTAWA - As another inflation-fighting year wraps up, the Bank of Canada's quest to restore price stability is expected to begin drawing to a close in 2024. The central bank's hefty rate hikes are fin...
Dec 24, 2023
A beautiful racket: In Newfoundland, the ugly stick is an instrument in high demand
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - This year, Dave Rowe, owner of a decades-old music store in St. John's, N.L., found himself in a peculiar yet pressing situation: he was out of ugly sticks, and the man who made the...
Dec 24, 2023
Baby boom of 59 pups helps endangered Vancouver Island marmot toward recovery
A tenacious Vancouver Island marmot's long-distance quest for love may help explain how the endangered animals are bouncing back from near extinction. Adam Taylor, executive director of the Marmot Rec...
Dec 24, 2023
University researchers confirm fire-generated tornado over B.C. lake in viral video
LONDON, Ont. - Researchers at Western University say they've confirmed that a fire-generated tornado occurred in British Columbia this summer after a video of the "rarely observed" event went viral ba...
Dec 23, 2023
Hearing set for two New Brunswick men whose murder convictions were overturned
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A hearing has been set for two New Brunswick men whose 1984 convictions for the killing of a man in Saint John were quashed Friday by the federal justice minister. The co-president ...
Dec 23, 2023
