Category Archives: Canada
B.C. to apologize to Doukhobor religious group, forcibly taken from parents in 1950s
CASTLEGAR, B.C. - British Columbia's attorney general is set to formally apologize to members of the Doukhobor religious group who were forcibly taken from their parents more than 70 years ago. Niki S...
Feb 01, 2024
Law expert concerned about vulnerable children, politicking in Alberta pronoun policy
CALGARY - A professor who specializes in the law and children's rights says policy changes affecting transgender Albertans are concerning. The changes include requiring parental consent for students 1...
Feb 01, 2024
CSIS director to testify about transparency at foreign interference inquiry
OTTAWA - A commission of inquiry into foreign interference will hear from national security officials today as it looks for ways to be transparent about a highly sensitive subject. David Vigneault, di...
Feb 01, 2024
Alberta to require parental consent for name, pronoun changes in schools
Premier Danielle Smith has announced a raft of changes affecting transgender Albertans, including requiring parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at sch...
Jan 31, 2024
A list of Alberta's new policies on gender and sexuality
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has posted a video to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announcing several new policies and guidelines dealing with gender and sexuality. Here is a l...
Jan 31, 2024
CP NewsAlert: Jury, coroner make recommendations in Saskatchewan mass killing inquest
MELFORT, Sask. - The jury at a coroner's inquest into a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation has made 14 recommendations. They suggest improvements to locate offenders who are unlawfully at la...
Jan 31, 2024
Ottawa pledges $362 million to provinces, cities to temporarily house asylum seekers
OTTAWA - The federal government is pledging an additional $362 million to help provinces and cities temporarily house asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Mark Miller announced the top-up to the feder...
Jan 31, 2024
Investigators recover voice recorder, talk to lone survivor of N.W.T. plane crash
EDMONTON - Investigators probing a plane crash that killed six people in the Northwest Territories have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and talked to the lone survivor. Jon Lee, western regional ...
Jan 31, 2024
Ottawa denies it told CBC to find 3.3 per cent budget cut, as executives have claimed
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, as executives with the public broadcaster have insisted. The Treasury Board, which o...
Jan 31, 2024
Dentists, hygienists still in the dark on details of federal dental-care plan
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is still working out how much dentists will be reimbursed as part of its new dental program, just months before the program is set to start ac...
Jan 31, 2024