Canada

Montreal police say 30-year-old man killed in armed assault Friday

Montreal police say a 30-year-old man was killed in an armed assault late Friday afternoon. Police say they found the man with at least one stab wound to his upper body after responding to a 911 call ...

Feb 3, 2024

AI brings deepfake pornography to the masses, as Canadian laws play catch-up

VANCOUVER - Underage Canadian high school girls are targeted using AI to create fake explicit photos that spread online. Google searches bring up multiple free websites capable of "undressing" women i...

Josh Hall Feb 3, 2024

First cases of fatal chronic wasting disease found in B.C. deer

VICTORIA - Researchers say a deadly disease starts out slow but has the potential to devastate British Columbia's deer population over time, after the discovery of the first cases in the province. The...

Feb 2, 2024

Labour agreement accepted by Quebec's FAE teachers union by narrow margin

MONTREAL - A Quebec teachers union whose strike late last year closed hundreds of schools for weeks has narrowly accepted a labour agreement with the province. Fdration autonome de l'enseignement, com...

Feb 2, 2024

Minister sorry for 'crappy piece of land' remark that angered pro-Palestinian groups

British Columbia's Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson has apologized for saying Israel was founded on a "crappy piece of land," remarks that have angered pro-Palestinian groups and othe...

Feb 2, 2024

Lawyer for father of murdered B.C. girl denies client brought gun to Ali verdict

VANCOUVER - A lawyer representing the father of a murdered 13-year-old girl says the man did not bring a gun into a Vancouver courtroom eight weeks ago, on the day Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the kil...

Feb 2, 2024

Judge sets aside ruling that granted U.S. trans woman's refugee status in Canada

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has set aside a decision to grant refugee status to an American transgender woman, sending her application back for redetermination. In a decision released this week,...

Feb 2, 2024

Catherine Tait says CBC needs new financial model, not new mandate

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's public broadcaster says it's the financial model and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada that need reviewing - not its mandate. Catherine Tait made the comments today to a roo...

Feb 2, 2024

Politics trumped legal advice in decision not to revoke citizenship of Nazi in 1960s

OTTAWA - A report on Canada's handling of Nazi war criminals suggests politics played a key role in the 1967 decision to preserve the citizenship of a man convicted of war crimes in the Soviet Union. ...

Feb 2, 2024

B.C. coroner's inquest jury begins deliberations about deadly Winters Hotel fire

VANCOUVER - The jury in a coroner's inquest into the Winters Hotel fire in Vancouver two years ago has been stood down to deliberate its recommendations about the deadly blaze. For two weeks the inque...

Feb 2, 2024