Category Archives: Canada
Health-care labour shortage a long time coming, requires shift to team-based care
OTTAWA - Nearly two and a half years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the staffing conundrum initially driven by high infection rates has evolved into an acute labour challenge. Herb Emery, t...
Sep 5, 2022
March honours 100-year anniversary of Chinese student school strike over segregation
VICTORIA - The first day of school in Victoria one hundred years ago marked the start of a student strike over segregation that helped Chinese-Canadians solidify their place in a country that was not ...
Sep 5, 2022
Pierre Poilievre: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate
OTTAWA - One could say Pierre Poilievre has grown up on Parliament Hill. Elected as a member of Parliament at just 25, he quickly earned a reputation for being a political pit bull with his ideologica...
Sep 5, 2022
What Pierre Poilievre's polarizing past on Parliament Hill says about his present
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre's first words in the House of Commons were a sure sign of things to come. It was October 2004, and though at 25 years old he was one of the youngest faces in the room, he had...
Sep 5, 2022
Fossil found on P.E.I. older than first dinosaur to have walked the Earth
Lisa Cormier was walking her dog down a familiar path on the beach at Cape Egmont, P.E.I., last month looking for sea glass when she spotted what looked like intertwined branches. A closer look reveal...
Sep 5, 2022
Sask. premier says flags will be at half-mast one day for each life lost
Flags at provincial government buildings in Saskatchewan are at half-mast as the manhunt continues for two suspects in a stabbing rampage on a First Nation and in a nearby village that left 10 people ...
Sep 5, 2022
Quebec's party leaders spread out around the province on Labour Day
MONTREAL - Quebec's main party leaders are spreading out around the province this Labour Day, after a Sunday spent campaigning in the Greater Montreal Area. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is heading...
Sep 4, 2022
Timeline of the police response to stabbings in Saskatchewan that killed at least 10
On Sept. 4, two suspects allegedly went on a rampage across part of Saskatchewan. Police say 10 people died and 15 others were injured over the 13 locations where the attacks took place. Here's a time...
Sep 4, 2022
CP NewsAlert: alert issued after Sask. stabbings expands to three provinces
RCMP in Saskatchewan have expanded an alert to two neighboring provinces for two suspects on the loose after multiple stabbings in numerous locations. The alert first issued around 7 a.m. has now been...
Sep 4, 2022
Quebec marks 10-year anniversary of 2012 fatal election night shooting
MONTREAL - Quebec is marking the 10-year-anniversary of its fatal election-night shooting amid renewed calls for security for political candidates on the campaign trail. It was a decade ago today that...
Sep 4, 2022