Canada

Parks Canada removes trash bins along Lachine Canal to spur citizen responsibility

MONTREAL - On warm days, Montreal's Lachine Canal can attract thousands of picnickers, cyclists and pedestrians. But since Parks Canada recently removed around 30 trash bins from the paths along the h...

Apr 18, 2024

Liberals buck global trend in 'doubling down' on foreign aid, as sector urges G7 push

OTTAWA - Foreign aid groups are hailing the federal Liberal government's return to a policy of increasing humanitarian and development spending each year, while asking for a plan to push allies to rev...

Apr 18, 2024

It's the biggest election in history. Here's why few Indians in Canada will take part

OTTAWA - Parmod Chhabra is deeply invested in the Indian general election that gets underway on Friday, with almost a billion people eligible to vote, but he won't be casting a ballot. Nor will the va...

Apr 18, 2024

'Off the rails': Schoenborn hearing adjourned, lawyer refuses to appear before board

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A hearing for AllanSchoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, has ended with an abrupt adjournment after his lawyer told the British Columbia Review Board he would no longer ...

Apr 17, 2024

Here's more about Ottawa's plan to turn post offices, historic armouries into housing

OTTAWA - A 1970s Canada Post building in Alberta and stone Quebec City army barracks dating back to 1856 are just some of the public lands the Liberal government plans to turn into homes. The idea, ou...

Apr 17, 2024

Métis Nation Saskatchewan pulls support for Liberals' belaboured self-government bill

OTTAWA - The Mtis Nation - Saskatchewan is pulling its support for a federal bill that proposes to enshrine its self-government over concerns about the other two groups it recognizes. President Glen M...

Apr 17, 2024

B.C. prison guards decry increasing violence, drone drops of weapons, drugs

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers says prisons have become "overwhelmed" by a surge in drone drops of weapons and drugs, driving a wave of violence in correctional facilit...

Apr 17, 2024

PQ leader's allusion to deportations, executions a threat to social cohesion: MP

OTTAWA - Quebec Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez says he deplores the tone taken by the leader of the Parti Qubcois, who referenced dark moments in Canadian history to justify the party's push for independe...

Apr 17, 2024

Elephant seal Emerson is back in Victoria, defying relocation by swimming 200 km

VICTORIA - Emerson the elephant seal is back in Victoria after defying attempts to relocate him and swimming more than 200 kilometres to return to his preferred urban habitat to moult. The Fisheries D...

Apr 17, 2024

What measures were missing from the 2024 federal budget

TORONTO - The federal budget tabled on Tuesday introduced $53 billion in new spending, but not everyone got what they were looking for. Here's a look at some of the measures not included in the Libera...

Apr 17, 2024