Canada

Quebec launches new health-care agency in bid to improve services

MONTREAL - A new Crown corporation officially has officially taken the reins of Quebec's health-care system as part of the provincial government's effort to reduce emergency room wait times and surger...

Dec 01, 2024

Poilievre calls for asylum seeker cap, border plan as U.S. tariff threat looms

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose s...

Dec 01, 2024

Quebec forest industry already under pressure amid Trump tariff threat: Legault

MONTREAL - Quebec's premier is raising concerns about the potential impact of the tariff proposed by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on the province's forest industry. Franois Legault says in a stat...

Dec 01, 2024

Ghana activists warn an anti-gay bill threatens the young democracy's institutions

ACCRA - Frank gets disturbing flashbacks every time he sees a police officer. As a staff member of the group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, he knew police could intimidate people for bribes, or say homophobic th...

Dec 01, 2024

First Métis group signs modern treaty with the federal government

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Mtis Federation President David Chartrand told a ceremony for a new treaty that recognizes his organization as the government for the Red River Mtis that the moment was 154 years i...

Nov 30, 2024

Potential unmarked graves identified at former residential school in central B.C.

The chief of a First Nation in central British Columbia says potential unmarked graves have been identified at the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School after nearly two years of geophysi...

Nov 30, 2024

B.C. Métis Nation votes to withdraw immediately from Métis National Council

SURREY, B.C. - Members of the Mtis Nation British Columbia have voted to leave the national organization, the Mtis National Council, effective immediately. The vote was held virtually on Saturday duri...

Nov 30, 2024

Trump calls Florida meeting with Trudeau productive amid stiff tariff threat

President-elect Donald Trump called his meeting with Justin Trudeau productive and says the prime minister made a commitment to work with the United States to end the drug crisis amid the threat of st...

Nov 30, 2024

Mont-Tremblant World Cup skiing races cancelled due to warm weather

MONTREAL - Fans hoping to see the world's top woman skiers compete next week in Mont-Tremblant, Que., are out of luck after the PwC Tremblant World Cup was cancelled due to warm weather. The races wer...

Nov 30, 2024

From inside a Cameroon jail, gay youth say police exploit homophobia to seek bribes

DOUALA - Pierre wakes up every morning atop a makeshift wooden table, in an open-air courtyard at the New Bell central prison in Douala, the most populous city in Cameroon. He cleans toilets, shoes an...

Nov 30, 2024