Canada

First Nations seek salmon return to Columbia Basin in new treaty with U.S.

First Nations groups on the Canadian side of the Columbia River Basin are adamant that salmon runs that have long been blocked by dams in the United States must be restored, potentially in a renewed r...

Nov 5, 2023

No movement for Canadians stuck in Gaza after Rafah border crossing closure

OTTAWA - Canadians awaiting word on when they can leave the war-torn Gaza Strip by crossing into Egypt still don't appear to have the green light to begin their journey home. Global Affairs Canada had...

Nov 5, 2023

Demonstrations in support of Gaza planned in at least two dozen Canadian cities

OTTAWA - Demonstrations are set to take place in more than two dozen Canadian cities today, with participants expected to voice support for residents of the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating humanitari...

Nov 4, 2023

B.C. conditions are magic for mushrooms in bumper season for fungi, tasty and toxic

VANCOUVER - Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper season for fungi. B.C. forest ecologist and mycologist Andy Mac...

Nov 4, 2023

Air Canada admits it violated disability regulations in case of B.C. man

VANCOUVER - Air Canada has acknowledged it violated Canadian disability regulations and apologized to a British Columbia man who uses a wheelchair, after he was forced to drag himself off a flight in ...

Nov 3, 2023

Supporters march in solidarity after arrests of Vancouver safe drug supply advocates

VANCOUVER - Advocates for a safe drug supply gathered in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to denounce the recent arrests of the founders of the Drug User Liberation Front. The Vancouver Police Department...

Nov 3, 2023

Man grabbed officer's gun before deadly shooting in Saskatchewan: police watchdog

ESTEVAN, Sask. - Saskatchewan's police watchdog says a 19-year-old man grabbed an officer's gun while he was getting his arrest photo taken, and an officer was shot and wounded. The Saskatchewan Serio...

Nov 3, 2023

Supreme Court rules mandatory minimum sentences for child luring are unconstitutional

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has ruled that applying mandatory minimum sentences to the offence of child luring is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Canada found in a six-to-one decision released ...

Nov 3, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Mary Ellen Turpel-Laford removed from Order of Canada

OTTAWA - Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a high-profile lawyer and child-rights advocate embroiled in a controversy surrounding her claims to Indigeneity, has been removed from the Order of Canada at her ow...

Nov 3, 2023

CP NewsAlert: New Brunswick Premier Higgs says he won't call an election this year

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says he won't call an election this year, ending weeks of speculation that the governing Progressive Conservatives would go to the polls almost a year ...

Nov 3, 2023