Canada

Climate change, trade ties top agenda as Trudeau attends summits in Asia

OTTAWA - Canada has its eyes on Asia and the lucrative trade markets in the Indo-Pacific region as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to the region tomorrow for a week of international summits and bi...

Sheldon Spackman Sep 3, 2023

Nova Scotia ceremony to mark 25th anniversary of deadly Swissair crash

INDIAN HARBOUR, N.S. - A delegation of Canadian military veterans, RCMP officers and first responders are gathering in Nova Scotia today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Canada's military respon...

Sep 3, 2023

Heat wave expected to hit central Canada, wildfire smoke, rainfall and wind elsewhere

Most of Ontario is expected to swelter under a heat wave through the long weekend and into the coming week, with temperatures expected to reach highs of 40 degrees Celsius with humidity. Environment C...

Sep 2, 2023

Raymond Moriyama, renowned Canadian architect behind iconic buildings, dies at 93

TORONTO - Raymond Moriyama, a renowned architect behind the design of some of Canada's most iconic buildings, has died. He was 93. A spokesperson for the architecture firm he founded said Moriyama die...

Sep 2, 2023

Twenty six properties on evacuation order in B.C. wildfire zones dropped to alert

VICTORIA - Evacuation orders for 26 properties in British Columbia's Kamloops and Shuswap Lake areas affected by two separate wildfires have been lifted and downgraded to alert status. The Thompson-Ni...

Sep 2, 2023

Maine resident captures nature in action in N.B. as shark snacks on whale carcass

Paul Keller was sitting on the back porch of his rented cottage by the Bay of Fundy, sipping his morning coffee, when he spotted some commotion in the water. Perhaps the splash of a flipper, he figure...

Sep 2, 2023

Canada's envoy to Ukraine says Canadian support will outlast Russian invasion

OTTAWA - Canada's new ambassador to Ukraine had an eerie sense of dj vu when she reached Kyiv last month. Natalka Cmok saw so many locals with missing limbs that it reminded her of working in Ukraine ...

Sep 2, 2023

CSIS disinformation campaign leans on Soviet imagery, as Ottawa tracks 'grey media'

OTTAWA - Canada's spy agency is leaning on Soviet imagery to help prime the public against disinformation but experts say Moscow is more likely to use images that make readers think the messaging is c...

Sep 2, 2023

School boards grappling with AI use in classroom, but formal policies still elusive

Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology...

Sep 2, 2023

Ecologists say life will return to B.C. wildfire zone, but trees may never grow back

The charred hills surrounding Lake Okanagan in the B.C. Interior will likely look very different in a year's time and beyond as life returns to the wildfire-ravaged landscape, ecologists predict. An e...

Sep 2, 2023