Canada

Drones tackle Penticton blaze as cool weather helps bring B.C. fires under control

PENTICTON - Drones are helping map hot spots in a wildfire blazing on the fringes of British Columbia's Okanagan region, as cooler and calmer conditions help firefighters bring blazes elsewhere under ...

Aug 10, 2022

Family of Saskatoon woman being held in U.S. urges Canada to extradite her home

Family of a Saskatchewan woman being held in custody in the United States say they want her extradited quickly to deal with her charges in Canada. Dawn Walker, who is 48, is facing two charges in Oreg...

Aug 10, 2022

Draft speech on residential schools edited out blaming Ottawa for abuse: documents

Ottawa was careful to avoid admitting abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools happened "at the hands of the federal government" in remarks prepared for a Liberal cabinet minister af...

Aug 10, 2022

Quebec rejects plea to send army to northern region facing health worker shortage

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department says it has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik that the Armed Forces be brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers...

Aug 10, 2022

World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies

OTTAWA - Canadian aid agencies are warning that the world food crisis, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is leading to a rise in underage girls being forced into marriage. Plan International Canada sa...

Aug 10, 2022

Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is the first province to sign on to new federal funding for crisis centres that help victims of gender-based violence. The federal government will provide Manitoba up to $1 million...

Aug 10, 2022

Quebec religious minorities feel less safe, hopeful due to secularism law: survey

MONTREAL - A new survey has found that religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago. The survey res...

Aug 10, 2022

Ottawa woman who went missing in 1980 had been living outside Canada, recently died

OTTAWA - A four-decade-old missing persons case has been resolved more than a year after the woman's family made a renewed plea for information. Dale Nancy Wyman told some family members she was think...

Aug 10, 2022

Plastics producers ask court to quash planned federal ban on single-use straws, cups

OTTAWA - More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa's plan to ban several single-use plastic items including straws, cutlery and takeout containers. It is ...

Aug 10, 2022

RCMP apologize: Questions remain more than 50 years after Yukon woman's death

Family members are still searching for answers after the RCMP apologized for not properly investigating an Indigenous woman's death more than five decades ago. Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie, a 26-year-old Kas...

Aug 10, 2022