Canada

As Canada warms, infectious disease risks spread north

It was 15 years ago that Ontario student Justin Wood started feeling sick. A keen soccer player, snowboarder and mountain biker, Wood said he didn't know the cause but he had to "back off from playing...

May 26, 2024

Who is Buffalo Woman? Serial killer trial hears of police efforts to identify victim

WINNIPEG - In mid-March 2022, a young Indigenous woman stood outside Winnipeg's Salvation Army and spoke with a man who invited her back to his home. Wearing a reversible Baby Phat branded jacket and ...

May 26, 2024

Quebec premier says he’s open to limiting social media use as CAQ debates age limits

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he's open to "taking major steps" to curb children's social media use amid pressure from his party's youngest members. Some 700 members of the Coalition ...

May 25, 2024

Plane crash reported in the remote outskirts of Squamish, B.C.

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Mounties are investigating a report of a plane crash in the remote back country near Squamish, B.C. A statement from the RCMP says police were informed of an automatic crash notificat...

May 25, 2024

1 dead, four injured in Quebec’s Outaouais region after car swerves into guardrails

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say a collision in the province's Outaouais region this morning has left a 22-year-old man dead and four others seriously injured. They say emergency services were ...

May 25, 2024

'Crime of vengeance': Saskatchewan RCMP say witnesses key to solving brutal slaying

Mounties suspected Tiki Laverdiere was dead before her burned, bludgeoned body was found wrapped in a carpet under rocks in a Saskatchewan pond in the summer of 2019. She was a 25-year-old mother of t...

May 25, 2024

Private property or public space? Encampments spark debate over campus status

MONTREAL - After four weeks that have featured torrential downpours, blistering heat and two failed legal bids to have them removed, pro-Palestinian protesters remain encamped on McGill University's d...

May 25, 2024

Border intelligence program needs improved training, analytical tools: evaluation

OTTAWA - Better training and information-processing tools are needed to help the intelligence program at Canada's border agency fight everything from firearms smuggling to human trafficking, says an i...

May 25, 2024

RCMP officer's social media posts prompt calls for suspension from First Nation chief

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A British Columbia First Nation is calling for the suspension and removal of an RCMP officer from Bella Bella over social media posts he made before joining the Mounties. Heiltsuk ...

May 24, 2024

Mayor says Fort Nelson, B.C., evacuation order 'very close' to being lifted

The mayor of the northeast British Columbia municipality where thousands have been evacuated due to wildfires says officials are "very close" to letting residents go home before next Tuesday. Northern...

May 24, 2024