Canada

Signs calling for police to search landfills taped to Winnipeg police headquarters

WINNIPEG - Protesters attending a rally honouring an Indigenous woman whose remains were recovered at a landfill taped their protest signs to the windows of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters, d...

Apr 8, 2023

Nearly 300,000 customers still without power in Quebec after ice storm

MONTREAL - The pace of power restoration in Quebec was expected to slow down on Saturda, now that hydro crews have dealt with the largest-scale outages caused by this week's deadly ice storm. Maxime N...

Apr 8, 2023

Hundreds of thousands remain without power after dedly ice storm in Quebec

MONTREAL - Hydro-Qubec says it's restored power to more than half a million customers since Wednesday's ice storm, but more than 600,000 remain in the dark. Director of Energy System Control Maxime Na...

Apr 7, 2023

'Hanging in': David Suzuki shares insights as he retires from 'The Nature of Things'

After 44 years as the face of Canada's premier science TV show, you might expect David Suzuki to feel a little sadness and a little nostalgia as he steps down as host of "The Nature of Things." Not so...

Apr 7, 2023

N.S. mass shooting: how gun smuggling happened, and the inquiry's call for reforms

HALIFAX - A decade before a Nova Scotia man used smuggled guns to murder 22 people in the province in 2020, police information systems had labelled him as a firearms risk. Yet those records never foun...

Apr 7, 2023

Family of Indian migrants who died in Quebec shocked by river crossing attempt

An Indian national who died with his family last week when a boat capsized in the St. Lawrence River during an attempt to enter the United States was "mortally afraid of water," says his cousin. Pravi...

Apr 7, 2023

Sajjan says Liberals might reverse foreign-aid drop if economy bounces back

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says his government might boost foreign aid spending if the Canadian economy rebounds after criticism over a drop in development funding that ...

Apr 7, 2023

Doctor behind cross-border rush for Ozempic in B.C. is suspended in Nova Scotia

BEDFORD, NOVA SCOTIA - Nova Scotia's College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended a doctor it says was responsible for thousands of prescriptions of the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic that ...

Apr 6, 2023

B.C. lifts health-care mask rules as province emerges from pandemic, Henry says

VICTORIA - British Columbia is lifting pandemic restrictions like mandatory mask-wearing in health-care settings and visitor restrictions and proof of vaccination in care homes. Provincial health offi...

Apr 6, 2023

No evidence of homicide in case of woman's remains found in Winnipeg landfill: police

Winnipeg police say they have no evidence to suggest the death of an Indigenous woman whose body was found in a landfill Monday was a homicide. Police chief Danny Smyth says 33-year-old Linda Beardy w...

Apr 6, 2023