Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada's Heritage Minister is leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads under a bill forcing Google and Meta to pay publishers for content they link to or repurpos...

MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge says he fears a jail sentence of just three months for a man convicted of promoting hatred against Jews would trivialize the crime. Both the prosecution and the defence...

YELLOWKNIFE - Several communities in the Northwest Territories have broken temperature records in recent days as residents try to beat the heat. Jesse Wagar, a meteorologist with Environment and Clima...

WINNIPEG - Canada's premiers have ended their annual three-day conference in Winnipeg with a request that Ottawa boost economic growth and trade. Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, who hosted the mee...

OTTAWA - A lawyer for the Assembly of First Nations says including the recognition of rights is a "sticking" point as the organization negotiates a new policing bill with Ottawa. Julie McGregor update...

Actors Martin Short, Luke Kirby and Lamar Johnson are among the Canadian actors nominated for Emmys. More coming. The Canadian Press

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan police officer has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessities of life as the beleaguered Prince Albert force tries...

OTTAWA - Only two fines have been issued under a four-year-old federal law meant to compel boat owners not to abandon their vessels when they are shipwrecked or reach the end of their lifespan. Vancou...

HALIFAX - A First Nations leader from New Brunswick is imploring others to help stop social-media attacks targeting the new interim chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Terry Richardson, chief of P...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. port strike could be nearing its end after Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan gave a federal mediator 24 hours to send him recommended terms to resolve the dispute. Once he gets the t...