Category Archives: Canada
Mounties eyeing change to recreational cannabis use policy for members
OTTAWA - The RCMP is looking at easing a policy that requires front-line officers and many other employees to refrain from recreational cannabis use for four weeks before duty. A change to the five-ye...
Sep 05, 2023
Students head back to school with climate change, AI and affordability top of mind
TORONTO - Students across much of Canada are packing lunches and slinging on backpacks today as they bid farewell to summer vacation and gear up for another school year. Parents and teachers say they'...
Sep 05, 2023
In the news today: Evacuees returning to Yellowknife, Trudeau in Indonesia
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Return of Yellowknife evacuees still on track Yellowknife residents are crossin...
Sep 05, 2023
Manitoba Tories seek third consecutive mandate in election set for Oct. 3
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson is expected to call an election today. The vote is already scheduled for Oct. 3 and Stefanson will make a campaign announcement this morning where she is ...
Sep 05, 2023
Yellowknife evacuees hopeful they'll be allowed to return home tomorrow as planned
Yellowknife residents are crossing their fingers that tomorrow's scheduled lifting of a general evacuation order will go ahead as planned and they'll be allowed to return home. The lifting of the orde...
Sep 05, 2023
Trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber begins today
OTTAWA - The criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber begins today, as they answer charges related to their role in the protest that threw Canada's capital city into ...
Sep 05, 2023
Quebec Facebook class action can go ahead after Supreme Court declines to hear appeal
MONTREAL - A class-action lawsuit alleging Facebook illegally allowed advertisers to target users based on their race, age and gender can move forward after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appea...
Sep 05, 2023
Invasive species report outlines costs, solutions for world governments
An international organization has produced a report on alien invasive species which says the global problem costs billions of dollars annually and is, in some cases, being worsened by climate change. ...
Sep 05, 2023
Essential workers head back early to Yellowknife to be ready for everyone else
YELLOWKNIFE - Officials in Yellowknife, as well as staff with the Northwest Territories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of wildfire evacuees that's still on track for Wednesd...
Sep 04, 2023
B.C. Coroner's inquest jury recommends police body cameras after fatal shooting
NELSON, B.C. - A jury in a coroner's inquest into the police killing of a British Columbia man eight years ago says the province and the RCMP should speed up the introduction of police body cameras. T...
Sep 04, 2023
