Canada

Closing Roxham Road border crossing will not stop arrival of asylum seekers: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Closing an unofficial border crossing in southern Quebec will not slow the arrival of asylum seekers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. "If we close Roxham Road, people will cross ...

May 12, 2022

Heavy flooding forces residents of Northwest Territories town from their homes

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - About 3,500 residents have been ordered to evacuate a town in the Northwest Territories as volatile water levels never before experienced in some areas cause extensive flooding and...

May 12, 2022

Dutch princess returns to Ottawa, where she was born during Second World War

OTTAWA - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is today visiting Ottawa, the city where she was born during the Second World War. The princess was born at Ottawa's civic hospital after the Dutch royal ...

May 12, 2022

Judge begins final instructions for jury in Quebec City Halloween murder trial

QUEBEC - A Quebec Superior Court judge has begun delivering final instructions to the 11-person jury that will determine the fate of the man accused in Quebec City's fatal Halloween 2020 sword attack....

May 12, 2022

RCMP claims that emergency alerts cause public panic are unfounded: N.S. inquiry

HALIFAX - Fears that the public would panic if they receive alerts during dangerous situations are more myth than reality, experts on emergency alert systems said Thursday at the public inquiry invest...

May 12, 2022

Plane that crashed with fugitives was overweight, heading for Toronto: Witness

VANCOUVER - A woman who knew the pilot of a fatal flight that killed two men wanted in separate murder plots says he told her he was heading for Toronto and was concerned about the plane's weight. The...

May 12, 2022

B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says

Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research. A recently publi...

May 12, 2022

White House, senators have 'sympathy' for Canada's position on Line 5, says Wilkinson

WASHINGTON - Canada's natural resources minister says he is hearing "significant sympathy" from U.S. officials for the plight of the Line 5 pipeline. Jonathan Wilkinson is in Washington, D.C., for mee...

May 12, 2022

Latvia seeks Canadian support for expanded, permanent NATO presence in Baltics

OTTAWA - Latvia's prime minister is in Ottawa today seeking Canada's support for an expanded, permanent NATO force in his country and fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia. In an interview, Krijn...

May 12, 2022

Family of Montreal man killed by police in 2017 reaches settlement with city

MONTREAL - The family of a man shot dead by Montreal police has reached a settlement with the city in connection with a lawsuit they filed over his death. Pierre Coriolan died on June 27, 2017, when p...

May 12, 2022