Category Archives: Canada
COVID-19 numbers spike in B.C. but no more cases of new variant are detected
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 numbers, with cases, test positivity, hospitalizations and deaths all up in recent weeks. The BC Centre for Disease Control says in a m...
Sep 08, 2023
Regulator yanks thousands of wells from troubled oil company, transfers for cleanup
Alberta's energy regulator has transferred thousands of oil and gas wells and other facilities held by a troubled Calgary company to the group that's responsible for cleaning up poorly maintained or a...
Sep 08, 2023
Ottawa school bus routes cancelled for thousands of students due to driver shortage
OTTAWA - Thousands of Ottawa parents are still scrambling to find a way to get their kids to school after their buses were suddenly cancelled because of a driver shortage. About 7,500 students are aff...
Sep 08, 2023
Is hurricane Lee headed for Canada? The 'spaghetti models' can be misleading: expert
HALIFAX - For residents of Canada's East Coast, some of the latest images showing the potential path northward for a rapidly intensifying hurricane Lee are disturbing. By combining multiple computer-g...
Sep 08, 2023
'Low-key' King Charles focused on Indigenous reconciliation in first year on throne
MONTREAL - Chadwick Cowie says he's feeling cautiously optimistic about King Charles III's relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Canada after meeting the monarch at a July garden party in Scotland. ...
Sep 08, 2023
B.C.'s Cantonese speakers fight to preserve language amid uncertainty in Hong Kong
You wouldn't know that Cantonese is under threat, judging from the food court of the Parker Place shopping mall in Richmond, B.C., the most ethnically Chinese city in the world outside Asia. All aroun...
Sep 08, 2023
Quebec man facing arson charges in northern wildfires detained ahead of bail hearing
A Quebec man facing arson charges in connection with forest fires in the province's north during the spring and summer will remain detained ahead of a bail hearing on Monday. Quebec provincial police ...
Sep 08, 2023
In the news today: Trudeau at G20 in New Delhi, "Freedom Convoy" trial
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Trudeau suggests he would raise issue of foreign interference with India's PM M...
Sep 08, 2023
'Freedom Convoy' lawyers to argue admissibility of Facebook evidence
OTTAWA - Day four of the criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is set to focus on whether Facebook content should be entered into evidence. Lich and Barber helped ...
Sep 08, 2023
Pierre Poilievre to deliver first speech as leader to Conservative convention
QUEBEC - Conservatives gathered for the federal party's national policy convention in Quebec City today will hear not only from their leader later, but from a man who at one time wanted that job himse...
Sep 08, 2023
