Category Archives: Canada

Four missing after Airmedic helicopter crash in northeastern Quebec: police
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say an operation is underway after a helicopter crash in northeastern Quebec that has left four people unaccounted for. They say the aircraft operated by Airmedic w...
Jun 21, 2025

B.C. student created wildfire map during own evacuation from Manitoba fire zone
University of British Columbia Okanagan geography student Jenna Taylor went home last month to spend time with her family in Flin Flon, Man. A relaxing break did not ensue. Taylor and her family would...
Jun 21, 2025

Ottawa considering 'combination of approaches' to 20% military pay hike
OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty's office says it's considering a "combination of approaches" to boosting pay for armed service members, including introducing retention bonuses for "stress tra...
Jun 21, 2025

First Nations youth say they're 'starting a movement' against major projects bills
OTTAWA - First Nations youth leaders are warning Canadians can expect a long, tense summer of protests as governments push forward with plans to fast-track major projects - and young people will be le...
Jun 21, 2025

Events are being held across the country Saturday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day
OTTAWA - Hundreds of events are planned across the country Saturday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day. First observed in 1996, Indigenous Peoples Day is meant to recognize First Nations, Inuit and Mtis c...
Jun 21, 2025

Federal Transportation Minister Freeland 'dismayed' about choice of Chinese shipyard
VICTORIA - Federal Transportation Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "dismayed" that BC Ferries has contracted a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels in the current geopolitical ...
Jun 20, 2025

Control zones set up in Fraser Valley, B.C., after Newcastle disease detected
CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Can...
Jun 20, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Federal Appeal Court grants B.C. ostriches stay of cull pending review
OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a stay, pausing the potential cull of nearly 400 ostriches at a B.C. farm. Court records show that a motion to pause plans for the cull, pending an app...
Jun 20, 2025

Predicting deadly rockfall would have been impossible, say geologists
Geologists say it would have been impossible for Parks Canada to predict or prevent the massive rockfall that killed two people in Banff National Park on Thursday, with pressure building over many yea...
Jun 20, 2025

Canada-Europe security and defence pact to be signed Monday in Brussels
OTTAWA - A security and defence partnership pact Prime Minister Mark Carney will sign with European leaders in Brussels on Monday will be among the most wide-ranging agreements with a third country Eu...
Jun 20, 2025