Canada

Wrong body returned from Cuba to Quebec family after father dies on vacation

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area woman is asking Canadian authorities to help locate her father's body in Cuba after a devastating mix-up that saw her family receive a stranger's remains instead. Miriam Jar...

Apr 22, 2024

Quebec Health Department reports 28 cases of eye damage linked to solar eclipse

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says it has received 28 reports of eye damage related to the April 8 total solar eclipse that passed over southern parts of the province. The 28 cases reported as...

Apr 22, 2024

Ottawa should engage more with the four million Canadians living abroad: senator

OTTAWA - A senator is calling on Ottawa to see Canadian citizens living abroad as more than just people to evacuate in times of crisis. B.C. Sen. Yuen Pau Woo argues Canadians who live abroad have tie...

Apr 22, 2024

Trudeau, Poilievre condemn chant on Parliament Hill glorifying Hamas attack on Israel

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is condemning a weekend protest on Parliament Hill where a participant openly supported the Hamas attack on Israel last fall. Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pie...

Apr 22, 2024

Canada to force plastic makers to report how much they make, reuse and recycle

OTTAWA - Canada is seeking to get a better handle on how much plastic is being produced in the country by forcing companies that make it to report annually on what they produce. Environment Minister S...

Sheldon Spackman Apr 22, 2024

In the news today: First Nations people more likely to leave ER: data

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says Researc...

Apr 22, 2024

Feds don't 'care if they die,' says lawyer helping Canadian children held in Syria

OTTAWA - Five Canadian children are languishing in a squalid detention camp in northeastern Syria after Ottawa denied their mothers permission to come to Canada, says a lawyer fighting in court on beh...

Apr 22, 2024

First Nations patients more likely to leave ER without care, study says

Researchers say First Nations patients are more likely to leave Alberta emergency departments before receiving care than non-Indigenous patients. They say a new study shows that anti-Indigenous racism...

Apr 21, 2024

Airbus workers at Quebec plant reject company's third contract offer

MONTREAL - Unionized workers at an Airbus assembly plant north of Montreal have rejected a contract offer for the third time. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which r...

Apr 21, 2024

Bus carrying Quebec youth baseball players crashes, injuring coach

MONTREAL - A Quebec youth baseball coach was seriously injured after a bus carrying players to a training camp in Florida veered off the road early Saturday morning. Mathieu Adam, who coaches the team...

Apr 21, 2024