Category Archives: Canada
More than 1,000 passengers have left Lebanon on flights booked by Canada, GAC says
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says it has now helped more than 1,000 passengers leave Lebanon as the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah intensifies. The department...
Oct 06, 2024
Eby supports police on guns and gangs, flanked by four law enforcement candidates
SURREY, B.C. - NDP Leader David Eby is promising to support police in British Columbia in their work to keep illegal guns off the streets and protect communities. Eby, speaking while flanked by four N...
Oct 06, 2024
Where will B.C.'s election be won? Even identifying the battlegrounds is tough call
VANCOUVER - The calculus of predicting an election and identifying its key battlegrounds is complex enough in any race, but observers of the British Columbia poll this month are facing a pair of unkno...
Oct 06, 2024
'We will never be the same': Oct. 7 killing of Montreal native leaves gaping hole
MONTREAL - Raquel Ohnona Look wipes back tears when her eyes fall on the plaque in honour of her son Alexandre, affixed to a bench in a suburban Montreal green space that was recently renamed for him....
Oct 06, 2024
Old Montreal fire under control, 2 bodies pulled from rubble, 40 people evacuated
MONTREAL - Authorities in Montreal say at least two people were killed in a major fire that ravaged a three-storey building in a historic part of the city and forced dozens of people out of the area. ...
Oct 05, 2024
B.C. campaign trail sees party leaders head to the Okanagan
The leaders of both British Columbia's provincial Conservatives and New Democrats are in the Okanagan campaigning today. B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is in Kelowna while NDP Leader David Eby i...
Oct 05, 2024
'Oct. 7 changed us': Palestinian Canadians with family in Gaza mark a year of war
Fedaa Nassar says any time she has heard the phone ring in the last year, she becomes overwhelmed with anxiety. "I hate phone calls now," says the 34-year-old lab technician at an Ottawa-area hospital...
Oct 05, 2024
Couche Tard, On the Run parent firms challenge Health Canada nicotine pouch rules
Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court to overturn regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies. Mac...
Oct 05, 2024
Sod-turning ceremony to be held at site of Humboldt Broncos bus crash
A sod-turning ceremony is set to be held Saturday morning at the site of the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan. A committee comprising the players' families, board members with the jun...
Oct 04, 2024
Alberta threatens new legal action over Ottawa's revised environmental assessment act
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is threatening another legal challenge against Ottawa's environmental assessment law, a move federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is dismissing as a...
Oct 04, 2024