Canada

Liberal MPs remain split on genocide case as UN orders Israel to protect Palestinians

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs are split on how Canada should respond to the International Court of Justice case on whether Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations' top court opted t...

Jan 26, 2024

In the news today: Investigators in N.W.T. working to uncover cause of plane crash

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Investigators work on deadly N.W.T. plane crash Investigators have started goin...

Jan 26, 2024

Transportation Safety Board continues to probe deadly northern airplane crash

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. - Investigators have started going through the site of a deadly plane crash just outside the town of Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories. The Transportation Safety Board has rel...

Jan 26, 2024

Woman hidden from Nazis appeals for Palestinian children on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Suzanne Weiss has been thinking about the young children orphaned in Gaza. The 83-year-old Toronto resident clearly recalls the terror she felt as a young girl, when she was hidden from Nazis by a Jew...

Jan 26, 2024

B.C. odour incidents spark questions around corporate ethics and communication

Vancouver resident Robert Ford was heading to a yoga class Sunday morning when he smelled an odour he likened to "semi-burnt fuel." As a member of council at his Kitsilano apartment building, he said ...

Jan 25, 2024

Former justice minister David Lametti resigns as Montreal MP to join law firm

OTTAWA - Former justice minister and Montreal MP David Lametti says he is resigning from public office as of the end of this month. Lametti made the announcement today, saying in a statement that he r...

Jan 25, 2024

U.K. suspends trade negotiations with Canada, as each accuse the other of not budging

OTTAWA - The United Kingdom is hitting the brakes on trade talks with Canada after Ottawa decided to not extend two temporary measures put in place after Brexit. London announced the pause in negotiat...

Jan 25, 2024

Study suggests oilsands pollutant release vastly higher than official estimates

Alberta's oilsands are releasing potentially hazardous compounds into the atmosphere at rates dozens of times higher than official estimates, newly published research suggests. The authors say the mas...

Sheldon Spackman Jan 25, 2024

Manager in fatal B.C. rooming house fire calls for better fire safety training

BURNABY, B.C. - The manager of a Vancouver rooming house that was the site of a fatal fire in 2022 broke down in tears at an inquest, telling the jury that staff needed better training in fire safety....

Jan 25, 2024

Murder of Quebec sergeant: No charges for officers who killed suspect after attack

Quebec provincial police officers won't face charges for killing a man moments after he had allegedly attacked and killed their colleague in March. Police shot dead Isaac Brouillard Lessard, 35, after...

Jan 25, 2024