Canada

No details: Alberta energy minister announces date for start of coal consultations

EDMONTON - Alberta says public consultations on coal mining will begin March 29 but there's no decision yet on how they will go ahead. "I have directed my department officials to bring forward a compr...

Feb 23, 2021

Liberal cabinet minister Jean-Yves Duclos steps aside to recover from illness

OTTAWA - Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos is stepping aside due to illness.Duclos says in a statement that he felt persistent chest pain over the past several days.He went to hospital on Sund...

Feb 23, 2021

Probe ongoing in slaying of Quebec woman who had reported threats just days before

MONTREAL - Police are still seeking a suspect in the slaying of a Montreal-area woman on Sunday who had told authorities days prior about being the victim of alleged death threats. Provincial police s...

Feb 23, 2021

Canada, Australia agree to co-ordinate efforts on regulation of online platforms

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison have agreed to continue "co-ordinating efforts" to ensure the revenues of web giants are shared more fairly with creators and medi...

Feb 23, 2021

Desmond inquiry: psychiatrist says stressors caused relapses for soldier with PTSD

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - The psychiatrist who diagnosed Cpl. Lionel Desmond with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2011 told a fatality inquiry Tuesday that the soldier had great difficulty dealing wit...

Feb 23, 2021

Isolation centre for migrant workers could close in Windsor due to funding shortfall

TORONTO - An isolation centre where migrant farm workers in southwestern Ontario recover from COVID-19 may have to close next month due to a funding shortfall created by a shift in federal support. In...

Feb 23, 2021

COVID-19 cases more than double in federal prisons during second wave of pandemic

OTTAWA - Canada's prison ombudsman is calling for alternatives to incarceration in a new report that shows the number of COVID-19 cases at federal facilities more than doubled in the second wave.Corre...

Feb 23, 2021

Government agrees people with mental illness should have access to MAID — in 2 years

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has agreed with the Senate that Canadians suffering solely from grievous and irremediable mental illnesses should be entitled to receive medical assistance in dying - b...

Feb 23, 2021

'I don't want a small town:' Airport leaders rally to save control towers

REGINA - Eleven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, silence fills Regina's airport. Empty check-in counters line one side of the terminal while the odd employee moves behind reception along a row of ve...

Feb 23, 2021

B.C. advocates say relaxed drug offence penalties not enough amid deadly supply

VANCOUVER - Federal government proposals to relax penalties for personal drug possession are a positive step forward for Vancouver's former drug czar, but they're too small to address skyrocketing ove...

Feb 23, 2021