Canada

Toronto Police reviewing protest that prompted cancellation of PM's reception

Toronto Police say they are reviewing whether illegal activity occurred during a protest on Saturday that led to the cancellation of a reception hosted by the Prime Minister for a visiting G-7 leader....

Mar 3, 2024

Montreal winter second-warmest on record, Environment Canada says

MONTREAL - Environment Canada says the 2023-2024 winter season in Montreal was the second-warmest since record-keeping began in 1871. Meteorologist Gregory Yang says the mean temperatures for December...

Mar 3, 2024

Inaccurate data on forest fuels may stoke B.C. wildfires, study finds

VANCOUVER - Wildfire fighting and forest management decisions are potentially being hampered by inaccurate government data that misrepresents forest fuel loads in British Columbia's Interior, a new st...

Mar 3, 2024

AI has come for music. So far, there's a Great Big Sea between people and algorithms

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The production is slick, the drums are on point, and the vocals sound great, but a titan of Newfoundland and Labrador's music scene hears something off about "It Could Be Worse" and...

Mar 3, 2024

Trudeau meets Italian PM Meloni in Toronto, pair agrees to 'roadmap' for cooperation

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Toronto on Saturday, where the pair said they agreed to establish the Canada-Italy Roadmap for Enhanced Coope...

Mar 2, 2024

Quebec SAQ liquor store employees give green light for limited strike

MONTREAL - Members of a union representing more than 5,000 Quebec liquor store employees have voted in favour of a strike amid stalled negotiations that union leadership says have dragged on for a yea...

Mar 2, 2024

Skiing or golf? Spring break choices follow Canada's weird winter

VANCOUVER - Bin Xie's children typically spend spring break at ski camps but, after unseasonably warm and unpredictable weather upended much of this year's ski season, his family decided to rent an RV...

Mar 2, 2024

LGBTQ students look ahead after Alberta town bans Pride flags, rainbow crosswalks

WESTLOCK, Alta. - Shaylin Lussier went home and screamed after the student's town voted for a bylaw banning Pride flags and rainbow crosswalks from municipal property. Lussier, a member of the gay-str...

Mar 2, 2024

Quebec Appeal Court Bill 21 ruling fuels debate on notwithstanding clause

MONTREAL - Hours after Quebec's highest court upheld his state secularism law, Premier Franois Legault was triumphant. The decision was "a great victory for the nation of Quebec," he said in a brief s...

Mar 2, 2024

A closer look at the legacy of former prime minister Brian Mulroney

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney died Thursday in Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 84. He was first elected in 1984 following the largest majority mandate in Canada's history, and was re-e...

Mar 1, 2024