Category Archives: Canada
In the news today: Wildfires rage in Western Canada, Manitoba murder trial continues
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Wildfires force thousands of Canadians to flee Thousands of people in Western C...
May 15, 2024
Winnipeg murder trial expected to hear from neighbours of admitted serial killer
WINNIPEG - Three people who lived in the same apartment building where Jeremy Skibicki killed four women are expected to testify in a Winnipeg courtroom today. Skibicki told police he strangled or dro...
May 15, 2024
B.C. needs dedicated, cross-government wildfire strategy: former minister
A former British Columbia forests minister says the province is on the right track as it responds to worsening wildfires, but the scale of the challenge is so great, it's falling behind and needs to p...
May 14, 2024
B.C. First Nation surveys school site as it hosts meeting on unmarked graves
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A First Nations community in B.C.'s northern Interior that is hosting a gathering of Indigenous groups involved in the search for unmarked graves says it's conducting a geophysic...
May 14, 2024
Whitehorse bans online voting for local elections over risk of foreign interference
WHITEHORSE - There will be no internet voting for Whitehorse council this year, after a concern of foreign interference prompted a 6-to-1 vote to remove the idea from the city's proposed election byla...
May 14, 2024
Spy agency CSIS reveals 24 harassment investigations in annual report
OTTAWA - Canada's spy agency says in its annual public report that it dealt with 24 harassment investigations last year involving complaints by its staff. But the chief human resources officer for the...
May 14, 2024
Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire forces out hundreds of residents in 4 neighbourhoods
FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA - Hundreds of residents in four neighbourhoods in the southern end of Fort McMurray have been ordered out as a wildfire threatens the community. The Rural Municipality of Wood B...
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian general applauds Canadian defence minister for talking Ukraine victory
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair caught the attention of a Ukrainian general when he said allies are talking about what it will take to get to "victory for Ukraine" in the war with Russia. Blair's...
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian general applauds Canadian defence minister for talking Ukraine victory
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair caught the attention of a Ukrainian general when he said allies are talking about what it will take to get to "victory for Ukraine" in the war with Russia. Blair's...
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian general applauds Canadian defence minister for talking Ukraine victory
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair caught the attention of a Ukrainian general when he said allies are talking about what it will take to get to "victory for Ukraine" in the war with Russia. Blair's...
May 14, 2024