Canada

Prime Minister tells Quebec farmers government working on targeted inflation aid

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is looking at how it can provide targeted aid to farmers who are struggling with inflation. Trudeau, who made the comments a...

Feb 22, 2023

Google blocking news content for some Canadians in response to government bill

OTTAWA - A spokesman for Google says the tech company is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in response to the Liberal government's online news bill. The proposed Online News Act, ...

Feb 22, 2023

Quebec Premier Legault won't meet election promise to offer pre-kindergarten

Quebec Premier Franois Legault is defending his government's failure to meet a key campaign promise to offer kindergarten classes beginning at four years old to all the province's children. Legault sa...

Feb 22, 2023

Trudeau says best way to close Roxham Road is to renegotiate refugee deal with U.S.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are no simple solutions to shutting down a rural road in southern Quebec used by thousands of asylum seekers to cross irregularly into Canada. His com...

Feb 22, 2023

Joly tells UN assembly Putin is losing grip on reality, a year after Ukraine invasion

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on reality, a year after his invasion of Ukraine. Canada is pushing the United Nations General As...

Feb 22, 2023

Haitian group asks Canada to condemn 'racism' in Dominican Republic deportations

OTTAWA - A group in Haiti that supports people sent home from the neighbouring Dominican Republic is calling on Canada to raise the alarm about accusations of inhumane and racist treatment. Violent ga...

Feb 22, 2023

International group asks to be given a chance on unmarked graves contract

OTTAWA - The head of an international organization Ottawa hired to give advice on identifying possible remains in unmarked graves at former residential schools says to give its coming work a chance. T...

Feb 22, 2023

'Incredibly premature' to consider drug decriminalization, Alberta police chiefs say

CALGARY - The Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police says it believes, based on research it commissioned, that it would be "incredibly premature" to think about decriminalizing drugs. Instead, it say...

Sheldon Spackman Feb 22, 2023

Judge to amend order restricting strike action in Yellowknife

YELLOWKNIFE - A Northwest Territories Supreme Court judge says he will amend an order restricting strike action in Yellowknife after mediation between lawyers representing the city and Public Service ...

Feb 22, 2023

Ahead of energy talks, Quebec premier says open to paying N.L. more for electricity

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he is open to making "adjustments" to the Churchill Falls energy agreement between his province and Newfoundland and Labrador ahead of the offici...

Feb 22, 2023