Category Archives: Canada

Nunavut premier asks Ottawa for $250 million to tackle territory's housing crisis
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's premier is asking Ottawa to provide $250 million to help the territory build more homes, which he says is key to addressing health-care issues caused by overcrowding. P. J...
Jan 17, 2024

Immigration department says 144 Gazans on track to come to Canada, pending biometrics
Ottawa has processed visa applications for 144 people in the Gaza Strip, putting them on track to be reunited with extended family members in Canada - as long as they can make it across the border for...
Jan 17, 2024

Housing minister warns against resistance to ending exclusionary zoning
TORONTO - Canada's Housing Minister is warning that municipalities without a ban on exclusionary zoning will not succeed with applications for federal housing accelerator funding. Speaking Wednesday a...
Jan 17, 2024

Amid criticism, Canada asks Israel how it can help respond to Hamas sexual violence
OTTAWA - A multipartisan group of influential women is calling on Canada to help Israel heal from sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas, though it remains unclear what people in that country actually w...
Jan 17, 2024

Quebec man charged with killing three men with truck ordered to stand trial
AMQUI, Que. - A Quebec man accused of killing three people with his truck last March in a town about 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City has been ordered to stand trial. Steeve Gagnon's preliminar...
Jan 17, 2024

Alberta releases first report on well cleanup; $33B liability estimate called too low
Alberta's oil and gas producers spent nearly $700 million in 2022 on cleaning up the hundreds of thousands of old wells that dot the province, the regulator's first report on the extent of those liabi...
Jan 17, 2024

Family hopes former Cree grand chief's long stay in Montreal ER hallway spurs change
MONTREAL - The family of a Cree elder who spent four days in a Montreal hospital hallway say they hope that sharing his experience might spur change for the treatment of patients in Quebec emergency r...
Jan 17, 2024

Canada should be on 'high alert' for 2024 after record wildfire season: scientist
Canada should be on "high alert" for 2024 wildfires, a scientist with the Canadian Forest Service said Friday, as he offered a sweeping view of last year's record-shattering season. Research scientist...
Jan 17, 2024

Study maps mammoth's 1,000-km trek, suggests species coexisted with humans in Alaska
A new study traces the 1,000-kilometre journey of a woolly mammoth from western Yukon to the interior of Alaska, where she died about 14,000 years ago, seemingly in the prime of her life, near a hunti...
Jan 17, 2024

Quebec cold case murder trial: Crime scene photos show 19-year-old victim's life
MONTREAL - Crime scene photos presented in a Quebec cold case murder trial today are providing glimpses into the life of the 19-year-old junior college student whose life was cut short nearly 24 years...
Jan 17, 2024