Category Archives: Canada

AMQUI, Que. - Police say people have been seriously injured after a vehicle plowed into pedestrians who were walking beside a road in Amqui, in Quebec's Bas-St-Laurent region. The driver is being ques...

Federal inspectors are confirming that two releases of oilsands tailings water from Imperial Oil's Kearl mine are harmful to wildlife. Environment Canada is issuing an order to Imperial that it must t...

VICTORIA - Eight skunks found dead last month in Vancouver and nearby Richmond, B.C., tested positive for avian flu. British Columbia's Ministry of Agriculture says the skunks were infected with the s...

OTTAWA - Experts are warning that Canada's omission from a military pact involving three of its closest allies is symptomatic of a larger problem in how this country is perceived by its friends. U.S. ...

MONTREAL - The Jesuits of Canada have released a list of priests and brothers they say were credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over the past 70 years. The Jesuits, a religious order of the Ro...

QUEBEC - An indefinite general strike is underway at Quebec City's Universit Laval, where nearly 1,300 professors are off the job. The unionized professors went on strike today after a negotiation bli...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden, a vocal champion of combating climate change, is angering environmental allies by approving a controversial oil and gas project in Alaska. The Willow project, as...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has signed an agreement to open access to death certificates of Indigenous children who died at residential schools. The agreement allows the National Centre for Tru...

OTTAWA - A committee of MPs is calling on the federal government to issue an overarching annual national-security threat assessment. The House committee on public safety says the various bodies that h...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 13 ... What we are watching in Canada .....