Canada

Search for young girl who fell into Quebec river enters fourth day

DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Que. - Quebec provincial police are resuming a search for a four-year-old girl who fell into a river in a region north of Quebec City on Friday. The child was sledding with her mot...

Dec 25, 2023

Vancouver resident says Gaza used to be 'dressed like a bride' during Christmas

What Omar Mansour misses most about Christmas in the Gaza Strip is the music. Churches, schools and homes played Christmas music starting early December, said the Vancouver resident, and a permanent r...

Dec 25, 2023

'Beauty in the struggle': Edmonton TikToker aims to end hunger with street outreach

EDMONTON - Kora-lea Vidal, once a running back for Canada's silver-medal-winning national football team, says she never thought she'd escape domestic violence and become homeless. Vidal, 36, often pos...

Sheldon Spackman Dec 25, 2023

Vancouver skateboard community longs for indoor space as city policy tries to keep up

VANCOUVER - When parents come into Michelle Pezel's skateboard shop on Vancouver's Main Street around Christmas, they often ask where their kids can go to practise. Pezel, who co-owns Antisocial Skate...

Dec 25, 2023

Quebec judge authorizes class action lawsuit alleging abuse at Indigenous day schools

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Indigenous people who allege they received lower-quality education than other Quebecers at day schools where...

Dec 25, 2023

More Quebec public unions have tentative deals on working conditions, but not on pay

MONTREAL - Unions representing more than 200,000 Quebec government workers reached tentative working condition deals with the government over the weekend, but that may not be enough to stave off a str...

Dec 24, 2023

Police resume search for Quebec girl, four, who fell in river while sledding

DOLBEAU-MISTASSINI, Que. - Quebec provincial police say the search for a four-year-old girl who fell in a river in the province's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region resumed this morning. Rescuers have bee...

Dec 24, 2023

Montreal police say basilica fire not arson, investigation shows cause was electrical

Montreal police say an early morning fire outside the city's Notre-Dame Basilica was not intentionally set. Police spokeswoman Const. Vronique Dubuc says arson investigators were at the scene this mor...

Dec 24, 2023

More Canadians to feel pinch of high rates in 2024, making way for lower inflation

OTTAWA - As another inflation-fighting year wraps up, the Bank of Canada's quest to restore price stability is expected to begin drawing to a close in 2024. The central bank's hefty rate hikes are fin...

Sheldon Spackman Dec 24, 2023

A beautiful racket: In Newfoundland, the ugly stick is an instrument in high demand

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - This year, Dave Rowe, owner of a decades-old music store in St. John's, N.L., found himself in a peculiar yet pressing situation: he was out of ugly sticks, and the man who made the...

Dec 24, 2023