Category Archives: Canada
Ottawa announces $7 million for Hurricane Melissa relief in Caribbean countries
OTTAWA - Ottawa has announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa - and the government says it might deploy soldiers if asked. "Canada stands with the peopl...
Oct 30, 2025
Councillor says $100M project denied loan over Cowichan case, bank says not a factor
A Richmond, B.C., councillor says a company based in the city has been refused financing for what she says is a $100 million project because of uncertainty over their site due to the Cowichan Tribes A...
Oct 30, 2025
Seven things to watch for as PM Mark Carney meets Chinese President Xi Jinping
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday at a summit in South Korea, where he intends to talk about "a much broader set of issues than trade....
Oct 30, 2025
Churchill portrait thief loses appeal, heads to Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The man who stole the "Roaring Lion" portrait of Winston Churchill from the Chteau Laurier in Ottawa in January 2022 lost his appeal of his sentence on Thursday. Jeffrey Wood, who pleaded gui...
Oct 30, 2025
Senator tries again to put limits on prisons' use of solitary confinement
OTTAWA - Sen. Kim Pate has been fighting against prisons' use of solitary confinement since 2018, when the federal government committed to curbing the practice. She told The Canadian Press the situati...
Oct 30, 2025
Ottawa's new climate strategy being developed 'behind closed doors,' AFN says
OTTAWA - Ottawa's new climate competitiveness strategy is being developed "behind closed doors," without input from First Nations, an Assembly of First Nations leader charged at a parliamentary commit...
Oct 30, 2025
Alberta students cut class, rally at legislature for teachers in strike-bill dispute
EDMONTON - Hundreds of students cut class Thursday to march and chant against Alberta's shutdown of a teachers strike in protests that saw Premier Danielle Smith compared to a cold-hearted, green-furr...
Oct 30, 2025
Lise Bacon, former Quebec cabinet minister, senator, dead at 91
MONTREAL - Lise Bacon, a former senator and Quebec cabinet minister who was the first woman to hold the post of deputy premier, has died at the age of 91. Her death on Wednesday was confirmed by natio...
Oct 30, 2025
Fans buzzing as Blue Jays look for one more win to claim World Series in Toronto
TORONTO - An hour before the Toronto Blue Jays' merchandise store at Rogers Centre was set to open Thursday morning, Fay Dietrich stood in line among dozens of other fans in the drizzling rain. She sa...
Oct 30, 2025
Canada helms G7 talks on critical mineral alliance after U.S.-China détente
TORONTO - Canada is heading up talks to establish a G7 critical mineral production alliance in what's widely seen as a bid to check China's reign over a supply chain key to everything from wind turbin...
Oct 30, 2025