Canada

Make RCMP police of jurisdiction for Parliament Hill, union urges

OTTAWA - The union that represents front-line Mounties is urging the federal government to make the RCMP the police force of jurisdiction for Parliament Hill to bolster security. National Police Feder...

Mar 7, 2024

Yukon's 2024 budget promises money for housing, international health-care workers

WHITEHORSE - Yukon is predicting a surplus of $119 million in its budget with money for housing, green infrastructure and a new program to integrate internationally educated health-care workers. Finan...

Mar 7, 2024

Quebec judge won't exempt church-supported palliative care home from MAID law

MONTREAL - A Superior Court judge has denied a request from Montreal's Roman Catholic archdiocese for an exemption to a Quebec law requiring all palliative care centres in the province to provide medi...

Mar 7, 2024

Government closes bottom-contact fishing near rare B.C. coral reef

VANCOUVER - Federal authorities have closed Canada's only known live coral reef in the Pacific Ocean to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the ind...

Mar 7, 2024

Canada 'will be there' to help two Michaels after their detention in China: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back on the notion that Canada's willingness to help two citizens who were detained in China is an acknowledgement they engaged in espionage on Ottawa...

Mar 7, 2024

Alberta coal mine moves ahead without permits federal officials say are needed

Environmental groups are asking Ottawa to enforce its rules on an Alberta coal site that has started building an underground test mine without fisheries permits that officials have said are required. ...

Sheldon Spackman Mar 7, 2024

As Ottawa reels over multiple homicide, a look at recent mass killings across Canada

Ottawa is reeling after police said six people, including four children, were found dead Wednesday evening in a townhouse in the south-end Barrhaven suburb. Here's a look at recent examples of mass ki...

Mar 7, 2024

B.C. researcher says liver oil, meat trade threaten deepwater shark populations

Prof. Nick Dulvy recalls when the northern cod fishery collapsed back in 1992. "That was nothing short of a social and economic disaster for Canada," Dulvy said, who's a biology professor at Simon Fra...

Mar 7, 2024

Trudeau says some Pro-Palestinian protests cross line into hate, harassment

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says pro-Palestinian protests that include hatred or harassing behavior cross a line. Trudeau says he's heard from too many members of Canada's Jewish community ...

Mar 7, 2024

Montreal public health reports two new measles cases, bringing Quebec total to 12

MONTREAL - Quebec health officials are reporting two more measles cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the province to 12. The new cases are both in Montreal, adding to the seve...

Mar 7, 2024