Category Archives: Canada

Ottawa school bus routes cancelled for thousands of students due to driver shortage
OTTAWA - Thousands of Ottawa parents are still scrambling to find a way to get their kids to school after their buses were suddenly cancelled because of a driver shortage. About 7,500 students are aff...
Sep 8, 2023

Is hurricane Lee headed for Canada? The 'spaghetti models' can be misleading: expert
HALIFAX - For residents of Canada's East Coast, some of the latest images showing the potential path northward for a rapidly intensifying hurricane Lee are disturbing. By combining multiple computer-g...
Sep 8, 2023

'Low-key' King Charles focused on Indigenous reconciliation in first year on throne
MONTREAL - Chadwick Cowie says he's feeling cautiously optimistic about King Charles III's relationship with Indigenous Peoples in Canada after meeting the monarch at a July garden party in Scotland. ...
Sep 8, 2023

B.C.'s Cantonese speakers fight to preserve language amid uncertainty in Hong Kong
You wouldn't know that Cantonese is under threat, judging from the food court of the Parker Place shopping mall in Richmond, B.C., the most ethnically Chinese city in the world outside Asia. All aroun...
Sep 8, 2023

Quebec man facing arson charges in northern wildfires detained ahead of bail hearing
A Quebec man facing arson charges in connection with forest fires in the province's north during the spring and summer will remain detained ahead of a bail hearing on Monday. Quebec provincial police ...
Sep 8, 2023

In the news today: Trudeau at G20 in New Delhi, "Freedom Convoy" trial
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Trudeau suggests he would raise issue of foreign interference with India's PM M...
Sep 8, 2023

'Freedom Convoy' lawyers to argue admissibility of Facebook evidence
OTTAWA - Day four of the criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is set to focus on whether Facebook content should be entered into evidence. Lich and Barber helped ...
Sep 8, 2023

Pierre Poilievre to deliver first speech as leader to Conservative convention
QUEBEC - Conservatives gathered for the federal party's national policy convention in Quebec City today will hear not only from their leader later, but from a man who at one time wanted that job himse...
Sep 8, 2023

Trudeau suggests he would raise issue of foreign interference with India's PM Modi
SINGAPORE - Hours before he was set to board a flight to New Delhi on Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had not yet secured a meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But he suggested th...
Sep 8, 2023

Thousands of residents return to Yellowknife as wildfire evacuation order lifted
YELLOWKNIFE - Thousands of Yellowknife residents have returned home this week as a wildfire evacuation order was lifted. The nearby fire forced the city's 20,000 residents out of their homes about thr...
Sep 7, 2023