Canada

Drug user advocates concerned about B.C.'s decriminalization exception request

VANCOUVER - Advocates for drug users are raising concerns about British Columbia's request for Health Canada to empower police to step in when they see illicit drug use in public spaces, saying it may...

Apr 28, 2024

World Central Kitchen resumes aid mission in Gaza after workers killed by airstrikes

OTTAWA - The World Central Kitchen plans to resume operations in the Gaza Strip Monday, four weeks after Israeli airstrikes killed seven of its aid workers including one Canadian. The organization sus...

Apr 28, 2024

Quebec unveils $603 million five-year plan to protect French language

MONTREAL - Quebec is investing $603 million over the next five years to counter what its French-language minister describes as the decline of the French language in the province. Jean-Franois Roberge ...

Apr 28, 2024

Quebec singer and songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland dies of natural causes at 89

MONTREAL - Jean-Pierre Ferland, the singer-songwriter who became a fixture of Quebec's cultural landscape over a career that spanned more than six decades, died Saturday at the age of 89. The agency r...

Apr 28, 2024

Quebec liquor board to cull spirits from shelves as local distillers struggle

MONTREAL - The number of microdistilleries in Quebec has boomed in the last decade, growing from less than a dozen to about 70. But a decision by Quebec's liquor corporation to cull up to 200 homegrow...

Apr 28, 2024

What Trudeau's podcast appearances say about the Liberals' next ballot box question

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows Canadians aren't listening. He knows his defence against Conservative attacks over his signature climate policy isn't working, at least not yet. But he pla...

Apr 28, 2024

First, she aimed to transform Canada's military culture. The public service is next

OTTAWA - Corporate boardrooms. Military barracks. Federal government offices. They're not locales with a reputation for fostering diversity. Anita Anand has been trying to change that. Ensuring people...

Apr 28, 2024

Transit trips up among seniors since Montreal introduced free fare program, city says

Montreal says public transit trips were up between 15 and 20 per cent among people age 65 and over in the six months after it made the service free for local seniors. The program, which took effect on...

Apr 27, 2024

Workplace safety officials investigating truck driver death at Port of Montreal

Montreal's port authority says a man has died after an apparent accident at one of its wharves. Port of Montreal spokesperson Rene Larouche says the authority was notified of an accident involving a t...

Apr 27, 2024

Woman dies after head-on collision on highway west of Montreal

LACHUTE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning. Police spokesper...

Apr 27, 2024