Canada

MPs who visited West Bank urge action against "constant humiliation" of Palestinians

OTTAWA - MPs returning from a visit to the West Bank argue Canada needs to do more to prevent escalating tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. A group of three NDP and two Liberal MPs spent last...

Jan 21, 2024

Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway opening scaled back and delayed to Sunday afternoon

OTTAWA - Skaters eager to hit the ice on Ottawa's iconic Rideau Canal will have to wait a few hours longer and will have a shorter stretch to glide on than previously expected. The National Capital Co...

Jan 21, 2024

U.S. gun crime, health insurance woes scare off Canadian diplomats, union says

OTTAWA - The union that represents Canadian diplomats abroad says Global Affairs Canada should consider boosting compensation for those posted to the United States because they face increased risk of ...

Jan 21, 2024

Economics, affordability top agenda as Liberal cabinet meets in Montreal

OTTAWA - Officials say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be putting a big emphasis on policies that help Canada's middle class as he prepares to chair a cabinet retreat in Montreal over the next thre...

Jan 21, 2024

No recharge: long-term Prairie drought raises concerns over groundwater levels

EDMONTON - In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there's a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried. The Marmot Creek well in Kananaskis Co...

Jan 21, 2024

Vancouver's Bar Haifa is a 'love letter' to co-owners' Jewish and Palestinian roots

VANCOUVER - The collaborators behind restaurants in Vancouver and Toronto have Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli roots, and acknowledge they don't always agree. "Imagine 38 tastings for a falafel, and t...

Jan 21, 2024

Decade after fatal fire, some Quebec seniors' residences unable to install sprinklers

MONTREAL - Ten years after 32 people died in a fire that ripped through a residential complex for seniors in rural Quebec, around a quarter of all private seniors' residences in the province are still...

Jan 20, 2024

Police say two men from Ontario arrested after shots fired at home north of Montreal

LORRAINE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say two men from Ontario have been arrested after an investigation into shots fired at a home north of Montreal led to an early-morning police chase. Police s...

Jan 20, 2024

Quebec village sends threatening legal notices to nearly one-tenth of its population

MONTREAL - The village of Ste-Ptronille, Que., is used to receiving attention from outsiders. Tourists flock to the hamlet at the tip of picturesque Orleans Island to see its French colonial architect...

Jan 20, 2024

Trump card: Liberals say much is at stake as they paint Tories as 'MAGA' politicians

OTTAWA - As the United States election cycle goes into full swing ahead of a pivotal election later this year, federal Liberals north of the border have been increasingly comparing Canadian Conservati...

Jan 20, 2024