Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada is refusing to say whether Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand discussed the repatriation of Canadian men imprisoned in Iraq when she spoke recently with her Iraqi coun...

MONTREAL - Long before he became Montreal's police chief, Fady Dagher says he learned a lesson about racial profiling. It was in the 1990s and he was serving on the Montreal police anti-gang squad. He...

TORONTO - A partial solar eclipse was visible across the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and other parts of Canada on Wednesday as the annual Perseid meteor shower also reaches its peak this week. The Cana...

TORONTO - Federal Minister of Health Marjorie Michel has announced $24 million to create the Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium. Funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, t...

OTTAWA - The federal government is spending $34 million on projects to make Canadian communities more resilient to the effects of climate change. The funds come as cities and towns across the country ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Smoke in B.C. Interior causing poor air quality but helping the fire fight Many of the blazes burning across ...

OTTAWA - Some in Canada's aid sector say they're growing more and more concerned by how closely the Carney government is tying foreign aid to its efforts to boost domestic economic growth. Here's a lo...

PENTICTON - British Columbia's wildfire season has turned "brutal" after a delayed start, with a blaze that moved at a dizzying speed in the south Okanagan, offering lessons for protecting communities...

OTTAWA - Canada's "drone general" says the military knows it must "accelerate the adoption" of uncrewed systems and change how it interacts with industry as it looks to adopt fleets of low-cost drones...

Here are key facts about the Bald Range wildfire that exploded within hours of its detection in British Columbia's south Okanagan region on Aug. 7. B.C. officials declared a provincewide state of emer...