Canada

Crews work in Nunavut hamlet to restore power that's been off since Thursday

KIMMIRUT, Nvt. - The Nunavut government has declared a state of emergency in Kimmirut after a power outage hit the Baffin Island hamlet two days ago. Community and Government Services Minister David J...

Nov 2, 2024

Anti-suicide religious group files constitutional challenge against Waterloo, Que.

MONTREAL - A Quebec religious group headed by a man who lost his son to suicide has filed a constitutional challenge against the municipality of Waterloo after it was ticketed for going door-to-door t...

Nov 2, 2024

B.C. deluge shows why cities struggle to keep up with extreme rain

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - Heavy rain isn't unusual for the community of Deep Cove in North Vancouver, but when Ashifa Saferali saw an e-bike floating down the middle of the street she knew this storm wa...

Nov 2, 2024

'Election seems really close': Americans in Canada cast ballot ahead of U.S. election

EDMONTON - Stephen Winters says watching the U.S. election campaign from Canada as a dual citizen is like a parent watching their kid play sports. "When you're on the sideline it makes you more nervou...

Nov 2, 2024

Why so many elections in 2024? Chalk it up to the 'beauty of math,' says professor

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Tuesday's vote in the United States may be dominating social media feeds, but it is just one of more than 70 national elections that will have taken place this year by the end of De...

Nov 2, 2024

Supporters share cautious optimism and anxiety ahead of divisive U.S. election

MILWAUKEE - Tens of thousands of people from opposite sides of the political divide gathered at duelling rallies in Wisconsin on Friday, hosted by Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Don...

Nov 2, 2024

CSIS tracked intelligence flow across government in foreign interference leak probe

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service tracked the flow of its intelligence reports across government and studied how other agencies handled them as part of an investigation into leaks of classified informatio...

Nov 2, 2024

Court approves buffer zone ahead of expected protests at Vancouver Sikh temple

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between pro...

Nov 1, 2024

Alberta Appeal Court upholds sentence for Ontario trucker in Edmonton hotel killing

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a...

Sheldon Spackman Nov 1, 2024

Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French

MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits c...

Nov 1, 2024