Category Archives: Canada
Beginning of blue wave or just a summer fling? Conservatives meet amid polling boost
OTTAWA - For Emily Brown, it feels pretty good to be Conservative. "It's quite a time to be a part of this, honestly." Buoyed by successive polls showing the federal party's message on the cost of liv...
Sep 07, 2023
Private donation helps attract teachers to rural B.C. with $10,000 cash welcome gifts
A rural school district in the British Columbia Interior has filled a shortfall of teachers with help from an anonymous benefactor who donated $200,000 to welcome new educators. At a time when schools...
Sep 07, 2023
Trudeau visits Singapore to promote Canadian businesses, products
SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is continuing his tour of the Indo-Pacific region this week with a visit to Singapore to promote Canadian business and products. His two-day visit is expected...
Sep 06, 2023
Police return emotional support rabbit that ran loose in Vancouver SkyTrain station
VANCOUVER - A rabbit that hopped the tracks at a downtown Vancouver transit station was reunited with its owner after efforts by passengers and police. Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the bunny was...
Sep 06, 2023
Man convicted of killing woman in Saskatchewan arrested in B.C., parole suspended
VICTORIA - A man who brutally murdered an Indigenous woman in Saskatoon is back in custody and his parole has been suspended. Victoria police say Kenneth MacKay, who is 49, was arrested Friday but did...
Sep 06, 2023
On emotional bus tours, residents return to West Kelowna, B.C., to view the ashes
Annick deGooyer knew that her family's home of more than 20 years had been destroyed by the McDougall Creek wildfire that consumed scores of properties in West Kelowna, B.C., about three weeks ago. Bu...
Sep 06, 2023
Remains of two Innu children exhumed in Quebec as families question who they buried
MONTREAL - The remains of two Innu children have been exhumed from a Quebec cemetery to help give closure to families who have long-standing questions about the identities of the bodies they buried in...
Sep 06, 2023
Rental of B.C. school for Sikh referendum vote is cancelled by district
SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of a Sikh community referendum on Punjabi independence say they've received a "slap in the face" from a British Columbia school district that cancelled their rental of a scho...
Sep 06, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Appeal Court overturns stay granted to Quebec judge in wife's killing
MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has overturned a stay of proceedings granted to a retired Quebec judge whose conviction for fatally shooting his wife in 2012 was reversed by the federal justice mi...
Sep 06, 2023
Montreal-area police equip schoolchildren with backpacks that display speed cameras
MONTREAL - Children in Quebec are becoming living speed cameras as a way to get drivers to slow down in school zones. Police in the Montreal area are equipping a handful of schoolchildren with backpac...
Sep 06, 2023
