Category Archives: Canada
Slain OPP officer's funeral set for Thursday at Ottawa hockey arena
The funeral for an officer shot and killed in eastern Ontario is set for next week. Ontario Provincial Police say Sgt. Eric Mueller will have a police funeral at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on ...
May 13, 2023
Indian cops hunt suspects in illegal crossing deaths of family to U.S. from Akwesasne
Police in India say they are looking for three men in connection with the deaths of a family from Gujarat trying to cross into the United States by boat through Akwesasne, Que., in March. Indian polic...
May 13, 2023
Funerals to be held for Quebec firefighters killed during floods in Charlevoix region
SAINT-URBAIN, Que. - Funerals for two Quebec volunteer firefighters who died earlier this month during flash floods in the Charlevoix region will be private affairs. The municipality of St-Urbain, nor...
May 13, 2023
Windsor mayor calls out Ottawa after Stellantis accuses feds of failing on plant deal
The mayor of a southwestern Ontario city says he expects the federal government to live up to a deal that would se one of the world's biggest automakers build an electric vehicle battery plant in the ...
May 13, 2023
'Human compassion': Albertans lend a helping hand to wildfire evacuees
Woodland Cree Elder Leonard Cardinal, his wife and their son prepared more than 100 bagged lunches earlier this week and delivered them to evacuees from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, a northwestern Alber...
May 13, 2023
'Systemic difficulties' hampered review of Canada's cyberspy service: watchdog
OTTAWA - A culture within Canada's cyberspy service of "resisting and impeding" independent review has frustrated efforts to ensure it is obeying the law, say newly released documents from the federal...
May 13, 2023
Privacy commissioner appeals Federal Court decision in Facebook case
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is appealing a recent decision by the Federal Court, which sided with Facebook in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica affair. A judge in April dismi...
May 12, 2023
Two northern spotted owls found dead in B.C. forest, in blow to release program
SPUZZUM, B.C. - Two northern spotted owls that had been released into a British Columbia forest last year have been found dead, potentially reducing the known wild population in the province to a sing...
May 12, 2023
Transparency International Canada paper outlines hopes for new financial crime agency
TORONTO - An anticorruption group says the Trudeau government's plan to create a new federal financial crime agency is positive, but it may be missing an opportunity to tackle corruption and securitie...
May 12, 2023
Manitoba Sen. Raymonde Gagné becomes Senate's third-ever female Speaker
OTTAWA - A Manitoba senator will be the third woman to sit in the Speaker's chair in the Senate, and the first to do so in 44 years. The Governor General appointed Raymonde Gagn to serve in the role F...
May 12, 2023