Canada

Environmental groups welcome Parks Canada buyout of Jasper Park backcountry lodges

Environmental groups are welcoming Parks Canada's buyout of two businesses in Jasper National Park's Tonquin Valley, a scenic destination also used by vanishing caribou herds. Carolyn Campbell of the ...

Jan 05, 2023

New Brunswick man who killed three Mounties in 2014 files appeal of stiff sentence

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick man who fatally shot three Mounties in 2014 has applied to the province's highest court to have his precedent-setting 75-year parole ineligibility period reduced to 25 ye...

Jan 05, 2023

Family of Montreal man killed while unlawfully jailed wants systemic racism inquiry

MONTREAL - The family of a man who died after an altercation with guards at a Montreal jail while he was being unlawfully detained is demanding an inquiry. Nicous D'Andre Spring, 21, died after being ...

Jan 05, 2023

Man's body found near Roxham Road unofficial border crossing in Quebec

MONTREAL - A man has been found dead near an unofficial border crossing south of Montreal that is used by thousands of asylum seekers each year to cross into Canada from the United States. Quebec prov...

Jan 05, 2023

In The News for Jan. 5: Canadian parents are saving how much in child-care fees?

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 ... What we are watchin...

Greg Fry Jan 05, 2023

As parents celebrate lower child-care fees, will provinces keep up with demand?

OTTAWA - Nour Alideeb and her partner are trying to decide what to do with the hundreds of dollars they're now saving on child care for their two-year-old son. Parents are seeing their child-care fees...

Jan 05, 2023

Rule requiring negative COVID test before Chinese flights takes effect

VANCOUVER - Airline passengers leaving China, Hong Kong and Macau will have to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test when they enter Canada starting today. The Canadian government announced las...

Jan 05, 2023

A year after Canada banned conversion therapy, Ottawa says no criminal charges laid

OTTAWA - Gemma Hickey says when they were in their teens, they went to a faith-based conversion therapy practitioner who had them pray and read literature to try to make them heterosexual. "When I was...

Jan 05, 2023

Travellers at YVR feel lucky after flight out of Hong Kong before COVID test rules

VANCOUVER - Travellers arriving in Vancouver from Hong Kong said they were relieved to be among the last arrivals before Canada's new COVID-19 testing requirements took effect, including one woman who...

Jan 04, 2023

Inquiry demanded into Montreal jail death after guards used pepper spray, spit hood

MONTREAL - The death in custody of an illegally detained 21-year-old man inside a Montreal jail is sparking calls for a public inquiry. Veteran Montreal defence lawyers Charles B. Ct and Eric Sutton s...

Jan 04, 2023