Canada

Yukon budget lays out $48.2-million surplus, funding for dental, inflation relief

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government is predicting a $48.2-million surplus in 2023 with a budget promising cash for housing, health care, infrastructure and inflation relief. The document, tabled by Fina...

Mar 2, 2023

RCMP make two arrests, seize firearms, right-wing political material west of Montreal

MONTREAL - RCMP say two men face charges in connection with a large firearms seizure last year just west of Montreal. Authorities say Jordan Madden, 29, and Joshua Madden, 31, of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que...

Mar 2, 2023

B.C. firm gets approval from Health Canada to make and sell cocaine

LANGLEY, B.C. - Health Canada has granted a British Columbia cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine. Adastra Labs says in a news release that Health Canada gave it...

Mar 2, 2023

B.C. to ask Ottawa for money laundering law changes after case fails to yield charges

VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general says she will lobby the federal government to amend Canada's financial crime law after a multi-year money laundering investigation by police failed to pr...

Mar 2, 2023

Manitoba RCMP say 2 teenage girls died after being found in the cold on First Nation

ST. THERESA POINT, Man. - RCMP say two teenage girls died in the cold outside a home on a remote First Nation in Manitoba. Mounties were called after the 14-year-old girls were found Wednesday in St. ...

Mar 2, 2023

Quebec health minister says emergency room death of 86-year-old woman 'disturbing'

MONTREAL - Quebec Health Minister Christian Dub says details surrounding the death of an 86-year-old woman in an emergency room last week are "disturbing" and "unacceptable." First reported by TVA Nou...

Mar 2, 2023

Alberta band chief angry over silence from Imperial Oil after oilsands tailings spill

A northern Alberta band chief says he's angry over not being notified for nine months after two separate releases from an oilsands tailings pond. Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation say...

Sheldon Spackman Mar 2, 2023

Supreme Court to look at issue of Crown liability when a law is struck down

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine whether the Crown enjoys absolute immunity from a civil suit seeking damages over passage of a law that is found to be unconstitutional. The top court...

Mar 2, 2023

Canada, China had better relationship at time of Trudeau Foundation pledge: Rosenberg

OTTAWA - The former head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says the level of caution Canadian institutions must now take when dealing with China was not top of mind when the charitable organiza...

Mar 2, 2023

Montreal university says no indication donation by Chinese billionaire was suspect

MONTREAL - The Montreal university that was promised an $800,000 donation as part of an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau says the pledge came at a different time in C...

Mar 2, 2023