Canada

Put politics aside and act on online harms, mother of sextortion victim tells MPs

OTTAWA - Parents of children who died because of online sexual extortion are urging MPs to act on online harms legislation. The bill and other legislation have been blocked from moving forward for mon...

Dec 05, 2024

Five Eyes security agencies send up flare for help on preventing youth radicalization

OTTAWA - Security agencies from Canada and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are calling for a "whole-of-society response" to deal with the radicalization of young people lu...

Dec 05, 2024

Patrick Brown set to make committee appearance on foreign interference

OTTAWA - Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown will appear before a Parliamentary committee on foreign interference this afternoon. The former Conservative Party leadership candidate was summoned to answer que...

Dec 05, 2024

Overseas hikers rescued in B.C. relied on online app: rescue group

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. - The search and rescue organization for Metro Vancouver's North Shore mountains says its teams recently rescued two international visitors who became stranded after relying on o...

Dec 05, 2024

Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault tells committee: 'I am not Indigenous'

OTTAWA - Randy Boissonnault, whose shifting claims to Indigenous identity cost him his job as employment minister, told a House of Commons committee today that he is not Indigenous. Boissonnault was c...

Dec 05, 2024

Quebec police say cutting blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save up to 14 lives a year

QUBEC - Quebec provincial police estimate that reducing the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save between 10 and 14 lives every year on the province's roadways. Those figures are contained in he...

Dec 05, 2024

Government asks for third extension on court deadline to pass 'lost Canadians' bill

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the government is seeking a third extension to a court-mandated deadline to pass legislation that grants citizenship to "lost Canadians." Miller says the...

Dec 05, 2024

Trudeau, ministers and opposition leaders address AFN gathering in Ottawa

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fell short of committing to a national inquiry on systemic racism in policing this morning even as he acknowledged the pain of First Nations mothers who have had...

Dec 05, 2024

Quebec government wants Supreme Court to rule on random police stops

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada a ruling that found permitting random traffic stops leads to racial profiling. In October, Quebec's Co...

Dec 05, 2024

NDP pulls channel change on Conservatives, forcing House debate on abortion

OTTAWA - A surprise tactical move by the NDP forced a debate in the House of Commons on abortion access this morning sidelining a Conservative motion designed to use NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's own wor...

Dec 05, 2024