Category Archives: Canada
As NDP gathers to talk strategy, MPs vow to keep Liberals at their word on pharmacare
OTTAWA - At a three-day retreat in Ottawa this week, New Democrat members of Parliament are expected to focus discussions on getting more wins out of their confidence-and-supply agreement with the fed...
Jan 17, 2023
Alberta investigates family's lead-contaminated water well near gravel mine
Alberta Environment is investigating how a family's water well near a gravel mine became so contaminated by lead it's no longer drinkable. The investigation comes as Red Deer County considers expandin...
Jan 17, 2023
Critics pan government plaque praising Canada's evacuation efforts in Afghanistan
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada plans to install a plaque commemorating Canada's evacuation of Afghans and embassy staff when its capital Kabul fell to the Taliban, but critics argue that sends the wro...
Jan 17, 2023
Smith says no COVID-19 pardons because Canadian system doesn't work like the U.S.
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is no longer pursuing amnesty for COVID-19 health-rule violators because Canada doesn't work that way. "Because we've been so influenced by the (Unit...
Jan 16, 2023
Officer who survived deadly avalanche making 'incremental progress': City of Nelson
NELSON, B.C. - The City of Nelson, B.C., says a police officer who suffered critical injuries in an avalanche that killed a colleague last week is making "incremental progress" but faces a long road t...
Jan 16, 2023
Remains of three victims found at site of Quebec propane explosion, police say
MONTREAL - The remains of three people have been found at the site of last week's explosion and fire at a propane distribution company north of Montreal. Quebec provincial police confirmed today that ...
Jan 16, 2023
Trudeau should have visited First Nation during Saskatchewan stop: Indigenous leaders
SASKATOON - The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says it is dismayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not visit the First Nation where a child's bone was found at a former residential schoo...
Jan 16, 2023
A whistle, a watch and DNA identify Canadian soldier 106 years after death in France
OTTAWA - A whistle, a pocket watch and DNA analysis helped a Canadian Forces forensic team identify the remains of a Vancouver soldier more than 100 years after he died in France. A National Defence s...
Jan 16, 2023
B.C. tenants ordered to pay $500,000 after unit in 'near-hoarding state' catches fire
VANCOUVER - Two Vancouver tenants have been ordered to pay more than $500,000 following a November 2017 apartment fire that a judge ruled was "foreseeable." B.C. Supreme Court Justice Matthew Kirchner...
Jan 16, 2023
New standards on long-term care released, with Liberal government bill yet to come
OTTAWA - A team of experts has released a detailed handbook on how to boost quality of life and prevent the spread of infection in long-term care homes that could inform anticipated federal legislatio...
Jan 16, 2023