Canada

Explorer's cameras recovered after 85 years on Yukon glacier

KLUANE NATIONAL PARK AND RESERVE - A cache of equipment belonging to explorer Bradford Washburn, including three of his cameras, has been retrieved from a Yukon glacier after 85 years. Now conservatio...

Oct 28, 2022

Montreal police open murder investigation after woman, 81, found dead in seniors home

Montreal police say they've opened a homicide investigation into the death last week of an 81-year-old-woman at a senior's residence. Police spokesman Const. Julien Lvesque says paramedics notified po...

Oct 28, 2022

A timeline of events before and after the Liberals invoked the Emergencies Act

OTTAWA - The Public Order Emergency Commission is tasked with understanding what led the Liberal government to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear protests against COVID-19 mandates and Prime Minister...

Oct 28, 2022

'It was historic': Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously

OTTAWA - A New Democrat member of Parliament says she will be holding the government accountable after her motion calling on the federal government to recognize Canada's residential schools as genocid...

Oct 28, 2022

Urgent recommendation calls for inspection of Canadian-made De Havilland Otter planes

VANCOUVER - Aviation regulators in Canada and the United States are being urged to order the immediate inspection of a type of Canadian-built float plane involved in a deadly crash in Washington state...

Oct 28, 2022

Ottawa restricting foreign state-owned investments in critical minerals

OTTAWA - The federal government is restricting the involvement of foreign state-owned companies in Canada's critical minerals sector. Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne and Natural Resource...

Oct 28, 2022

Concordia University issues apology to Black community for history of racism

Montreal's Concordia University today issued a formal apology to Black communities for the harm caused by institutional racism and in particular for events that led to a landmark 1969 student protest....

Oct 28, 2022

Advocates urge Ottawa to remove quota on Afghan refugee sponsorship program

TORONTO - A group of advocates is urging the federal government to remove the limit on applications to sponsor certain Afghan refugees in Canada - or at least stop counting rejected applications towar...

Oct 28, 2022

Cybersecurity centre warns of evolving ransomware tactics, state-sponsored threats

OTTAWA - The federal cybersecurity centre says criminals who hold data for ransom are expected to use new techniques - such as threatening a target's partners or clients - to increase their chances of...

Oct 28, 2022

Supreme Court declares parts of sex offender registry unconstitutional

OTTAWA - Canada's top court says parts of the national sex offender registry are unconstitutional In a ruling this morning, the Supreme Court of Canada says mandatory registration of all sex offenders...

Oct 28, 2022