Canada

Minister delays appointment of new human-rights commissioner after independent review

OTTAWA - After an independent review, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced Wednesday that Birju Dattani has agreed not to begin his appointment as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Com...

Aug 07, 2024

Blair announces CFB Esquimalt military housing project, 480 single-occupancy rooms

ESQUIMALT, B.C. - National Defence Minister Bill Blair says British Columbia's CFB Esquimalt will be the site of a new 480-room military housing project. The minister was at the Victoria-area naval ba...

Aug 07, 2024

Utility worker injured in shooting in rural area east of Calgary, another person dead

ROCKY VIEW, Alta. - Mounties say the rural roadside shooting that left one worker wounded and a second person dead was not targeted. RCMP Staff Sgt. Mark Wielgosz made the statement in an investigatio...

Aug 07, 2024

Rinse and repeat: Calgarians back to water restriction as new pipe problems found

CALGARY - Residents in Calgary and surrounding communities, fresh off having to conserve water for weeks due to a water main break, are soon going to have to do it all over again. Mayor Jyoti Gondek s...

Aug 07, 2024

Woman, child dead in Tuesday's B.C. highway crash involving six vehicles

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Police in British Columbia's Fraser Valley say the people who died in Tuesday's multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 were a local woman and a child. A statement from RCMP Highway Patrol...

Aug 07, 2024

Federal government reviewing how Toronto terror suspects arrived to Canada

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says federal departments are reviewing how two men with suspected links to a terrorist group abroad were allowed into Canada. Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi...

Aug 07, 2024

More than 2,000 Quebec hotel workers set to strike for one day on Thursday

MONTREAL - Hotel workers in three of Quebec's largest cities are set to walk off the job Thursday in the middle of the busy summer tourist season. The one-day strike will affect 23 hotels in the Montr...

Aug 07, 2024

WestJet says 10 per cent of fleet grounded after Calgary pummelled by hail

CALGARY - WestJet says 16 of its planes have been grounded after a massive hailstorm hit Calgary earlier this week. The Calgary-based airline says those aircraft - 10 per cent of its fleet - need subs...

Aug 07, 2024

Listeria contamination of plant milks happened in Pickering, Ont. facility, CFIA says

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recent Listeria contamination of several plant-based milks occurred in a Pickering, Ont., factory. It says the contamination happened on a "dedicated produ...

Aug 07, 2024

Former spy agency director David Vigneault joins U.S. strategic intelligence firm

OTTAWA - The outgoing head of Canada's spy agency is joining an American strategic intelligence firm that is waging war against intellectual property theft. Strider Technologies says in a press releas...

Aug 07, 2024