Category Archives: Canada
Leaders urge Quebecers to vote as advance polls open ahead of provincial election
MONTREAL - Quebec's main political party leaders spent Sunday rallying their supporters to head to the polling stations, as Quebecers got a first chance to vote for who will lead them after the Oct. 3...
Sep 25, 2022
Industry minister to represent Canada at former Japanese PM's funeral
OTTAWA - Federal Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne will represent Canada at former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's state funeral this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled...
Sep 25, 2022
Couple proceeds with wedding amid chaos in P.E.I. from post-tropical storm Fiona
CHARLOTTETOWN - Naomi and Tyler Wheeler have lived through a pandemic, wildfires, heat waves, minor earthquakes and most recently a post-tropical storm that laid waste to huge swaths of Atlantic Canad...
Sep 25, 2022
Military sounding alarm over recruiting problems as Canadians steer clear
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is sounding the alarm over a severe shortage of recruits to fill thousands of vacant positions, with the shortfall so bad that senior officers are now calling it a c...
Sep 25, 2022
'We saw what happened in Ontario': Quebecers urged to vote in provincial election
MONTREAL - An incumbent premier and his party sail through an election campaign as a fragmented opposition vies to capture the attention of voters in the absence of a central rallying issue or tide-tu...
Sep 25, 2022
Officials across Eastern Canada set to begin assessing full scope of storm damage
As post-tropical storm Fiona continued to hammer parts of Newfoundland and Labrador and eastern Quebec with powerful winds and significant storm surge early Sunday, officials across Eastern Canada pre...
Sep 25, 2022
Family says Bill Blaikie, who served as NDP MP for nearly 30 years, dies
WINNIPEG - Manitoba politician Bill Blaikie, who spent nearly 30 years as a Member of Parliament with the federal New Democrats, has died. His son, NDP Finance Critic Daniel Blaikie, posted a family s...
Sep 24, 2022
Quebec election: Fiona briefly throws off Quebec election campaigns
MONTREAL - Post-tropical storm Fiona caused some disarray on the campaign trail Saturday as some parties cancelled planned events and Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault briefly suspended hi...
Sep 24, 2022
Fiona hits Newfoundland: Houses collapse, resident rescued after she is swept to sea
CHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. - Neighbours pulled a woman from the waters off southwestern Newfoundland early Saturday after a storm surge caused by post-tropical storm Fiona enveloped her home, caus...
Sep 24, 2022
Reaction to destruction caused by post-tropical storm Fiona across the East Coast
HALIFAX - Post-tropical storm Fiona knocked out power to more than 500,000 customers in the Maritimes and forced towns in Cape Breton and on Newfoundland's southwestern coast to declare states of emer...
Sep 24, 2022