Category Archives: Canada

A lawyer for one of five former junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault charges last month says the Crown will not be appealing the ruling. More coming. The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - The provincial agency in charge of Quebec health care says the number of infants hospitalized from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, has fallen significantly following a successful vacci...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department has released a plan to reduce premature deaths linked to social and economic inequalities by 10 per cent by 2035. The province defines premature deaths as those b...

OTTAWA - Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in...

A new study suggests green space helped protect the mental health of city-bound Canadians during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The peer-reviewed study suggests people who lived in urban ar...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard is advising the leader of the Parti Qubcois to reconsider his promise to hold a sovereignty referendum in his first mandate if he becomes premier. The ...

MONTRAL - The Quebec liquor board may be forced to destroy $300,000 worth of American alcohol that the province has banned from stores. The provincial government on March 4 ordered the state-owned cor...

Attacks on immigrants to Canada continue to proliferate online, with the latest volley coming from a false claim that immigrants aged 65 and up receive a partial old age security (OAS) pension immedia...

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Two First Nations are denouncing British Columbia's planned month-long closure of Joffre Lakes Park for Indigenous cultural practices as too short, calling it "a ...

MONTREAL - A 17-year-old boy made a brief appearance today at Montreal's courthouse on terrorism charges. The accused faces three charges in youth court involving Islamic State. The federal Crown has ...