Canada

People with diabetes in lower-income areas at higher risk for amputations: report

TORONTO - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more than 7,000 people with diabetes undergo a leg, foot or toe amputation every year - and the majority of those procedures could have bee...

Sep 25, 2024

Macron, Trudeau meet as French president visits Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to his home in Ottawa Wednesday for an informal private dinner. Trudeau greeted Macron outside Rideau Cottage with a hu...

Sep 25, 2024

Evacuation orders near Grand Forks, B.C., as U.S. wildfire threatens to cross border

GRAND FORKS, B.C. - Tactical evacuations are underway outside the B.C. southern Interior town of Grand Forks, as an out-of-control wildfire in Washington state surges north and threatens to cross the ...

Sep 25, 2024

Haiti-born engineer named as next senator from Quebec

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a civil engineer who grew up in Haiti as the next senator from Quebec. Suze Youance will sit as an independent in the upper chamber. She immigrated to ...

Sep 25, 2024

Climate change made some heat waves at least 10 times more likely: Environment Canada

A new rapid analysis says climate change made August heat waves over some of Canada's most northern - and rapidly warming - regions at least 10 times more likely. Environment and Climate Change Canada...

Sep 25, 2024

Paleontologists unearth giant skull of Pachyrhinosaurus in northern Alberta

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - A giant skull from a rare dinosaur that's about the size of a baby elephant is being excavated in northern Alberta. Emily Bamforth, the paleontologist leading the excavation, s...

Sep 25, 2024

Crown loses bid to have security officials testify in lawsuit behind closed doors

OTTAWA - The Crown has lost a bid to have several current and former security officials testify behind closed doors in the lawsuit of a Montreal man who was detained in Sudan. Federal Court Justice Pa...

Sep 25, 2024

Sound decision: Montreal to change bylaw to protect venues from noise complaints

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal is promising to rapidly change a bylaw to protect entertainment venues and bars from noise complaints, after a court ordered a beloved music hall to pipe down. In a dec...

Sep 25, 2024

B.C. helicopter pilot sick with fever in days before fatal crash, report finds

RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board says a helicopter pilot killed in a crash in British Columbia almost two years ago was sick in the days leading up to the accident and reported "shiver...

Sep 25, 2024

High-ranking Montreal police officer accuses force of racism in resignation letter

MONTREAL - A high-ranking Montreal police officer says racism is a "cancer eating away at the organization" in a resignation letter marking the end of his 30-year career with the force. Cmdr. Patrice ...

Sep 25, 2024