Category Archives: Canada

In the news today: Truth and Reconciliation Day marked by events
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... 5th annual Truth and Reconciliation Day marked by events in Ottawa, Toronto Today is the fifth National Day fo...
Sep 30, 2025

About one in three Canadians say country belongs to Indigenous people: poll
OTTAWA - As people across the country gather for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a new poll suggests Canadians are divided about whether the country belongs primarily to Indigenous Peop...
Sep 30, 2025

Quebec premier launches last-ditch effort to avoid political annihilation
MONTREAL - A defiant Franois Legault took a fighting stance as he entered a party convention last weekend, accompanied by the theme song from Rocky III. The Quebec premier threw a few mock punches and...
Sep 30, 2025

A glimpse of Trudeau's congratulatory call that might have been to Kamala Harris
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau had clear guidance on what to say early last November in the event he should pick up the phone to congratulate Kamala Harris on becoming the first woman president of the United...
Sep 30, 2025

Carney marks 'devastating legacy' of residential schools in Ottawa event
OTTAWA - The federal government will "match remembrance with responsibility," Prime Minister Mark Carney promised on Tuesday, as he addressed the crowd assembled on Parliament Hill to mark the fifth a...
Sep 30, 2025

New cultural arts centre in Kahnawake breeds hope for next generation
KAHNAWAKE, QUEBEC - Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer is proud to be able to speak the same language her ancestors spoke. In the 1980s, Sky-Deer enrolled in one of the first schools in the Mohawk community of Ka...
Sep 30, 2025

Talks off before they began, BCGEU leader says of negotiations with B.C. government
VICTORIA - The head of the union representing British Columbia's 34,000 public sector workers says a government request to get back to the bargaining table appears to have been a "cheap stunt" as it o...
Sep 29, 2025

Quebec impresario Gilbert Rozon's $14M sexual assault civil trial now up to judge
MONTREAL - After 10 long months, the civil trial pitting Quebec impresario Gilbert Rozon against nine plaintiffs accusing him of sexual assault has come to an end. The 70-year-old Rozon is being sued ...
Sep 29, 2025

Legal challenges claim B.C. natural gas pipeline hasn't been 'substantially started'
VANCOUVER - Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in ...
Sep 29, 2025

Campbell not a 'saviour' but a much-needed conduit for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell said his appointment as British Columbia's new point-person to improve quality of life for people living in the city's Downtown Eastside doesn't mean he's a "czar...
Sep 29, 2025