Canada

Increasing renewable energy to create more conflicts between environmental values

An Alberta environmental group opposes a solar power project over concerns it would damage antelope habitat and block their migration. Homeowners in the province are fighting a renewable natural gas p...

Apr 12, 2024

Orphaned B.C. orca: Rescue team prepares landing site for complex rescue

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A team of about two dozen people is preparing the planned landing area for the complex rescue of an orphaned killer whale calf trapped in a remote tidal lagoon off northwest Vancouver...

Apr 12, 2024

French PM in Quebec: News conference with premier at legislature

MONTREAL - French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will be in Quebec City and Montreal as he wraps up a three-day visit to Canada today. Attal and Quebec Premier Franois Legault will hold a working sessio...

Apr 12, 2024

Spy director to face questions today on what feds were told about foreign meddling

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's spy agency is slated to face fresh questions today on exactly what the federal government was told about foreign meddling. Canadian Security Intelligence Service director...

Apr 12, 2024

Conservative immigration policy should focus on the goal of citizenship: Tory critic

OTTAWA - Conservative immigration critic Tom Kmiec says immigration policy should be focused on the ultimate goal of citizenship. He moderated a panel on the Conservative approach to immigration at th...

Apr 11, 2024

Bell Canada CEO Mirko Bibic defends job cuts in Commons committee testimony

OTTAWA - The head of Bell Canada is defending his company's decision to cut thousands of jobs, citing a shift in Canadians viewing habits from traditional TV to online. CEO Mirko Bibic is appearing be...

Apr 11, 2024

French prime minister to address Quebec legislature today, meet with premier

QUEBEC - French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is scheduled to address Quebec's legislature this afternoon. It's the first speech by a foreign leader at the province's legislature since then-French pres...

Apr 11, 2024

House of Commons faces marathon voting session over government's jobs bill

OTTAWA - MPs are staring down another voting marathon as the Conservatives push forward with dozens of proposed amendments to the government's sustainable jobs bill. Bill C-50 is a bureaucratic to-do ...

Apr 11, 2024

CP NewsAlert: B.C. judge rejects bid to throw out Ibrahim Ali's murder conviction

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected an application to throw out the conviction of Ibrahim Ali for the murder of a 13-year-old in Burnaby, B.C., over what his lawyers say we...

Apr 11, 2024

The board has spoken: Teacher fired after competing on 'Survivor Québec' reality show

MONTREAL - An elementary school teacher competing on the Quebec franchise of "Survivor" was recently fired after she took unauthorized time off to participate in the reality television competition. Db...

Apr 11, 2024