Canada

Total eclipse promises celestial show with streamers, loops and a possible comet

FREDERICTON - A total solar eclipse is a rare celestial event that always generates excitement, but next month's version is expected to be unusually spectacular. The April 8 eclipse that will occur ov...

Mar 21, 2024

Canadian woman identified as victim in Mexico shooting

QUERTARO CITY, Mexico - The son of a Canadian woman killed in Queretaro, Mexico, says she was on her way back to Canada to look after her elderly mother. Mexican police put out a release on Tuesday id...

Mar 20, 2024

China-based Canadian man accused of selling trade secrets of electric vehicle company

American prosecutors say a Canadian national living in China stole trade secrets from a leading U.S.-based electric vehicle company to set up a competing battery business. The U.S. Attorney's Office i...

Mar 20, 2024

Scientists fired from Winnipeg lab over security fears rightly under probe: minister

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says it's "extremely appropriate" that two scientists who lost their jobs due to dealings with China remain under investigation. The National Microbiology Laborat...

Mar 20, 2024

'Stay the hell away from our kids': Holland warns big tobacco about nicotine pouches

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland is promising a major crackdown on nicotine pouches, which he says are being marketed to children. Holland accuses Imperial Tobacco of exploiting a loophole to get...

Mar 20, 2024

'Serious errors' by B.C. prison officials who knew about a 4-year water leak: report

OTTAWA - The federal Public Sector Integrity Commissioner says the Correctional Service of Canada committed "gross mismanagement" when it took nearly four years to fix pipes at a B.C. prison that were...

Mar 20, 2024

Montreal public health optimistic that measles outbreak can be brought under control

MONTREAL - One of the doctors leading Montreal public health's response to the measles outbreak in the city says he's optimistic officials can gain control of the virus despite the rising number of ca...

Mar 20, 2024

Quebec newspaper La Presse removes cartoon denounced as antisemitic

MONTREAL - Quebec newspaper La Presse has removed a cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the vampire from the film "Nosferatu" after criticism that the caricature used antise...

Mar 20, 2024

'Possibly the end.' Quebec shrimp fishery facing climate change, tough economy

MONTREAL - For years, the northern shrimp fished in the Quebec waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence have been known as "crevettes de Matane," named after the town where much of the province's harvest ha...

Mar 20, 2024

Manitoba premier to apologize to two men switched at birth in 1955

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is set to apologize on behalf of the government to two men who were switched at birth in 1955 in a hospital north of Winnipeg. The premier's office says Kinew wil...

Mar 20, 2024