Canada

Searchers continue to pump water from Nova Scotia field in search for flood missing

HALIFAX - Workers are continuing to pump water from a flooded field in Nova Scotia that is the focus of a search for four people, including two children, who went missing in a torrent of water Saturda...

Jul 24, 2023

In the news today: Nova Scotia surveys damage from massive weekend rainfall

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Municipal offices in Halifax closed after weekend rains Municipal offices acros...

Jul 24, 2023

'We take pride in what we accomplished': Canadian veterans remember the Korean War

Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War. Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Vet...

Jul 24, 2023

First Nation spends day in ceremony to launch dig for potential unmarked graves

MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE - Before the sun broke through the sky Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way. Spiritual advisers were to...

Jul 24, 2023

Calls for residential school abuse records to be re-examined for names of deceased

OTTAWA - Geraldine Shingoose was shocked when she opened a report probing what should be done to protect potential unmarked grave sites at former residential schools for Indigenous children. Of the th...

Jul 24, 2023

Toddler dies after being struck by vehicle at Quebec campsite: provincial police

SAGUENAY, Que. - Quebec provincial police say a toddler was killed after being struck by a car at a campsite in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region north of Quebec City. Provincial police say the boy, ...

Jul 23, 2023

Fast-growing fire near Kamloops, B.C., prompts evacuation alerts and orders

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A fast-moving wildfire that has prompted evacuation orders and alerts in and around the Kamloops area has grown to 18-square kilometres in size. The Ross Moore Lake fire, first discov...

Jul 23, 2023

Search continues for four people missing after record rainfall in Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia RCMP say the search continues for four people, including two children, after intense thunderstorms dumped record amounts of rain across the province. Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay rele...

Jul 23, 2023

Refugee claims followed Montreal AIDS summit marred by visa woes, planning issues

OTTAWA - Almost one-sixth of guests at a major AIDS conference in Montreal last year who received Canadian visas ended up claiming asylum, according to internal data obtained by The Canadian Press. Th...

Jul 23, 2023

CBC head 'blindsided' staff with comments on broadcaster's future, Poilievre: emails

OTTAWA - After the head of Canada's public broadcaster gave a newspaper interview earlier this year that promised CBC would eventually become a digital-only product and that criticized Conservative Le...

Jul 23, 2023