Canada

Freeland finds safety in numbers on digital sales tax

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland isn't showing signs of worry that the U.S. can now launch a trade challenge against the Liberal government's controversial digital services tax. The Liberal...

Nov 13, 2024

Lab confirms Canada's first case of avian flu infection in humans in B.C.

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu. The agency says in a st...

Nov 13, 2024

Quebec’s police watchdog investigating after person seriously injured in Montreal

MONTREAL - Quebec's independent police watchdog has launched an investigation after a person was seriously injured during a police intervention in Montreal this morning. The Bureau des enqutes indpend...

Nov 13, 2024

Tributes to John Horgan as B.C. New Democrat members are sworn in

VICTORIA - Former British Columbia premier John Horgan loomed large over the swearing-in ceremony for 47 New Democrat members of the legislature, a day after his death. Before the ceremony, Songhees N...

Nov 13, 2024

Police ID body in Montreal park as abducted crypto influencer missing since June

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say a body found in a nature park last month was that of a cryptocurrency influencer who had been missing since he was kidnapped from his Old Montreal condo in June...

Nov 13, 2024

Build vaccine stockpile, use wastewater testing for H5N1 bird flu, experts urge

TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized three influenza vaccines that could be used if bird flu became a pandemic, the agency says. The federal government also has an agreement with vaccine manufacture...

Nov 13, 2024

Vancouver officer sexually assaulted colleague, but police group chat targeted victim

VANCOUVER - A disciplinary investigation has found a former Vancouver police sergeant shared "disrespectful" commentary on a fellow officer's court testimony about being sexually assaulted by a collea...

Nov 13, 2024

Spy service officer denies threatening Montreal man who was later imprisoned in Sudan

OTTAWA - A CSIS official denies they threatened a Montreal man who was later imprisoned and allegedly tortured by authorities in Sudan. The spy service employee, who can only be identified as Witness ...

Nov 13, 2024

Prime Minister Trudeau makes trip to Bermuda to eulogize longtime family friend

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is travelling to Bermuda today to give a eulogy at the funeral for businessman Peter Green. Green was a lifelong family friend to Trudeau and, as reported by the...

Nov 13, 2024

RCMP say three men arrested in B.C. have ties to Mexican drug cartels

SURREY, B.C. - RCMP federal investigators have arrested three men in British Columbia they believe are connected to a transnational organized crime group connected to Mexican drug cartels bringing coc...

Nov 13, 2024