Canada

Edmonton holds off on clearing final 'high risk' homeless encampment

EDMONTON - Police detailed the health and safety dangers of homeless camps in Alberta's capital, as officers held off on taking down the eighth and final encampment they deemed to be "high risk" with ...

Sheldon Spackman Jan 9, 2024

Russian woman barred from citizenship for antiwar stance becomes Canadian

OTTAWA - Federal officials have given Canadian citizenship to a woman they had pulled from a citizenship ceremony because a Russian court had convicted her for opposing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. M...

Jan 9, 2024

Man seriously injured after being stabbed at Montreal-area courthouse

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A man in his 60s has been seriously injured after being stabbed today at the courthouse in Longueuil, southeast of Montreal. Longueuil police say they were called to the courthouse a...

Jan 9, 2024

Human rights tribunal to be told Canada is still failing First Nations kids

OTTAWA - The First Nations Family and Caring Society will argue before the Human Rights Tribunal Friday that Canada isn't living up to its promise of timely access to health care for Indigenous childr...

Jan 9, 2024

CP NewsAlert: NASA delays Artemis II moon mission that includes Canadian astronaut

NASA says it will be delaying the Artemis moon mission that includes Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, initially scheduled for November of this year. The U.S. space agency provided an update today on ...

Jan 9, 2024

RCMP to begin collecting, analyzing race-based data in pilot project

OTTAWA - The RCMP says it will begin collecting race-based data in select locations this month to better understand interactions between police and people in various communities. The pilot project fol...

Jan 9, 2024

Sweden will send 'reduced battalion' to join Canadian-led NATO force in Latvia

OTTAWA - Sweden's prime minister says his country plans to join a Canadian-led NATO brigade force in Latvia. In a speech Monday to a national security conference, Ulf Kristersson said his government i...

Jan 9, 2024

B.C. launches Canada's first self-screening cervical cancer plan, with at-home tests

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is phasing out the pap test for cancer screening in favour of mail-in kits collected by patients. The government says trials have shown that screening for the human papill...

Jan 9, 2024

Montreal unregistered acupuncturist's clients urged to get tested for HIV, hepatitis

Montreal public health is urging clients of a man offering acupuncture treatments in the city's Notre-Dame-de-Grce neighbourhood to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Officials say the r...

Jan 9, 2024

RCMP fails to submit plan on how it will respond to Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry

HALIFAX - The RCMP have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to detail how they plan to implement recommendations from the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting. When the Mass Casualty Com...

Jan 9, 2024