Canada

Minister's Access to Info focus is better service amid calls for legislative overhaul

OTTAWA - The federal minister responsible for the much-criticized access-to-information system says her focus is on improving service amid growing calls to go further and rewrite the transparency law....

Jun 23, 2023

Quebec wildfires: Cree community orders evacuation due to heavy smoke

MONTREAL - A Cree community in northern Quebec was being evacuated Friday because of heavy smoke from a nearby forest fire. The wildfire in Mistissini, Que., the second largest Cree community in the p...

Jun 23, 2023

U.S. Navy heard possible 'implosion' before Titan submersible was reported missing

The U.S. Navy has confirmed its acoustic sensors detected on Sunday "an anomaly consistent with an implosion" in the area where the doomed submersible Titan was operating several hours before the vess...

Jun 23, 2023

Centre Block on pace to reopen in 2032, include new public area under Parliament Hill

OTTAWA - A massive overhaul of Centre Block on Parliament Hill is expected to be completed by 2031 and open to the public by 2032. Rob Wright, an assistant deputy minister at Public Services and Procu...

Jun 23, 2023

Owner of destroyed sub could use 'cruel' law for protection : In The News for today

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Titan submersible torn apart by catastrophic implosion, killing all five aboard...

Jun 23, 2023

Charity thanks victims' families for food, clothing after deadly Manitoba bus crash

DAUPHIN, MAN. - The legacies of some of the 16 seniors killed in a bus crash are living on in a western Manitoba community, as their clothing and leftover food are donated to those in need. "It's a hu...

Jun 23, 2023

Foreign firefighters fight flames, fatigue and get 'eaten alive' by mosquitoes

MONTREAL - Eighteen-year-old Hunter Sousa from Maine celebrated his high school graduation by hopping in a truck and heading to Nova Scotia to fight the biggest forest fire in the province's history. ...

Jun 23, 2023

As LBGTQ community girds for battle, advocates say time and the law are on their side

WASHINGTON - Harleigh Walker is just an ordinary American high school kid, but with one important difference: how she's spending her summer vacation. The self-described "very happy" straight-A student...

Jun 23, 2023

N.W.T. RCMP warn against vigilante justice after assaults in Fort McPherson

FORT MCPHERSON, N.W.T. - Police in the Northwest Territories are warning residents not to take justice into their own hands after a group assaulted two men suspected of drug trafficking and stealing a...

Jun 22, 2023

Federal budget bill passes Senate, becoming law despite Conservative opposition

OTTAWA - The federal budget has become law after passing third reading in the Senate without amendments this evening. The Liberal government revealed its fiscal plan in late March, promising to create...

Jun 22, 2023