Canada

Searching landfill for remains of Indigenous women too complex for police: RCMP

OTTAWA - Internal emails show the former head of the RCMP believed police are not equipped to handle the complexities of searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of slain Indigenous women. T...

Jul 7, 2023

Coroner identifies second victim in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean landslide

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner's office is confirming the identity of the woman killed in a landslide in the province's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region last weekend. Pascale Racine, 44, was one of two peop...

Jul 7, 2023

Family of Jared Lowndes sue RCMP over 2021 shooting death in Campbell River

VANCOUVER - Family members of a man shot and killed by the RCMP have filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court, the day before the two-year anniversary of his death. Relatives of Jared Lowndes say in a no...

Jul 7, 2023

B.C. mass-stabbing killer apologizes to victims, cites 'enormous' drug use

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The man who committed a deadly mass stabbing at a library in North Vancouver, B.C., two years ago, has apologized to each of his victims by name at his sentencing hearing. Yann...

Jul 7, 2023

As Quebec gets wetter because of climate change, risks of landslides increase

MONTREAL - Climate change is likely to increase the frequency of weather events that cause landslides in Quebec, like the one that killed two people a week ago, said a researcher who studies natural r...

Jul 7, 2023

'Missed opportunity' for Canada at summit on climate reform of developing world loans

OTTAWA - Foreign-aid and climate advocates say Ottawa needs to do much more to help developing countries brace for climate chaos without going broke, after Canada's uninspiring contribution to a summi...

Jul 7, 2023

U.S. trade envoy presses Canada on digital services tax, home shopping obligations

WASHINGTON - America's trade envoy is urging her Canadian counterpart to abandon plans for a digital services tax and to allow U.S. home shopping north of the border. U.S. Trade Representative Katheri...

Jul 7, 2023

B.C. port strike enters day seven as union, employers association trade barbs

VANCOUVER - The strike by thousands of workers at more than 30 British Columbia ports has entered its seventh day, as their union and the association representing B.C. maritime employers trade barbs a...

Jul 7, 2023

In the news today: Heat relief for parts of Canada, latest StatCan job numbers

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Cold front to bring some relief after heat wave... A cold front passing through...

Jul 7, 2023

'Don't fall off the horse': Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen leading Stampede parade

CALGARY - Col. Jeremy Hansen is preparing to become the first Canadian to travel to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission, but in the meantime he's tasked with cowboying up to become the second a...

Jul 7, 2023