Canada

Urban salmon return to Metro Vancouver streams to spawn and inspire recovery efforts

BURNABY, B.C. - The metallic screech of a train rolling by. The constant hum of traffic on the nearby Trans-Canada Highway. These are the sounds of the Brunette River in the fall, as it cuts through t...

Nov 20, 2024

Human smuggling trial could hear from survivor of frigid cross-border walk

FERGUS FALLS - The trial of two men accused of human smuggling is expected to soon hear from a migrant who survived a long walk across the Canada-U. S. border in a blizzard. Steve Shand and Harshkumar...

Nov 20, 2024

Bomb cyclone batters B.C. with hurricane-force winds, cutting roads and power

VANCOUVER - Hurricane-force winds of up to 159 km/h have slammed into parts of the British Columbia Coast as a massive storm swirling off Vancouver Island severed highways and cut power to about 225,0...

Nov 20, 2024

B.C. port union challenges constitutionality of labour minister's back-to-work order

VANCOUVER - The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a l...

Nov 19, 2024

Montreal mayor supports Polytechnique survivors' call for complete assault weapon ban

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante is lending her support to a gun control advocacy group as it urges the federal government to complete a list of banned assault-style weapons before a federal bu...

Nov 19, 2024

NDP MP calls on Boissonnault to resign over false claims to Indigenous identity

OTTAWA - A Mtis member of Parliament is calling on the employment minister to resign over what he calls harmful false claims to Indigenous ancestry. Randy Boissonnault, who had said his great-grandmot...

Nov 19, 2024

With Trump headed to White House, Canada has its eyes on Chinese investment in Mexico

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she shares the "legitimate" concerns of U.S. officials about Mexico becoming a back door for China to wedge its way into the North American tradin...

Nov 19, 2024

Sex abuse case: Judge orders seizure of homes belonging to billionaire Robert Miller

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered the seizure of two Montreal-area residences belonging to billionaire Robert Miller, at the request of four women who have filed civil lawsuits alle...

Nov 19, 2024

Motion to declare homelessness state of emergency fails to pass at Montreal council

MONTREAL - Montreal's city council has voted down a motion brought by a pair of Independent city councillors seeking to have a state of emergency declared over the city's homelessness situation. Mayor...

Nov 19, 2024

Quebec politician offers mea culpa for comments on racism in provincial legislature

MONTREAL - A Quebec legislature member says he doesn't think his colleagues at the national assembly are racist, as his party prepares to face criticism from all sides for controversial comments he ma...

Nov 19, 2024