Canada

Trudeau to chair Canada-U.S. relations cabinet committee amid calls to resign

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will chair a meeting of the cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations today, amid increasing calls for his resignation. A mid-day adjustment to Trudeau's itiner...

Sheldon Spackman Dec 23, 2024

Ontario asks Canada's highest court to hear youth-led climate case

TORONTO - Ontario is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to urgently decide whether it will hear a historic youth-led challenge of the province's climate plan. It's the first case to be tried in Canada...

Dec 23, 2024

In the news today: Green Party leader reflects on chaotic week

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Green Party leader reflects on chaotic week Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has nev...

Dec 23, 2024

The rent-a-friend industry is booming among Canada's Chinese diaspora

Beijia Ge's work duties change on an hourly basis. The Kingston, Ont., resident might be chatting with Chinese students about their secrets and challenges, or helping someone pack a suitcase, or bakin...

Dec 23, 2024

Green Party's Elizabeth May reflects on unprecedented week in Canadian politics

OTTAWA - Elizabeth May says in all her years on Parliament Hill she has never seen anything like the last week in Canadian politics. In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, May - now in her 1...

Dec 23, 2024

Suspected case of carbon monoxide poisoning in Ottawa leaves 10 people hospitalized

OTTAWA - Ottawa police say 10 people are in hospital and one of them is suffering from life-threatening injuries after a suspected carbon monoxide poisoning case. Police say the fire department and pa...

Dec 22, 2024

Drug superlabs leave a toxic mess. Some say B.C.'s cleanup rules are a mess, too

When Dean May's team of cleaners entered the home, dressed head to toe in protective suits, thick green dust covered every surface. "We literally left footprints when we were walking in the house," he...

Dec 22, 2024

'On death row.' Wrongfully convicted N.B. man has mixed feelings since exoneration

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Robert Mailman has a problem he never thought he'd have. He has to buy Christmas presents this year. The 76-year-old was exonerated on Jan. 4 of a 1983 murder for which he and his f...

Dec 22, 2024

Israeli expert urges justice for both Israeli, Palestinian victims of sexual violence

OTTAWA - The Israeli expert leading a civilian commission into sexual violence by Hamas is calling for global bodies to recognize "a new crime against humanity," involving violence targeted at familie...

Dec 22, 2024

RCMP informant's decades of spying on social reformers are chronicled in new book

OTTAWA - As a Communist Party member in Calgary in the early 1940s, Frank Hadesbeck performed clerical work at the party office, printed leaflets and sold books. But he also had tasks his party comrad...

Dec 22, 2024