Canada

'A specific form of anti-Black racism:' Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery

More than a year after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and scholars are renewing their calls for Ottawa to make a formal apology for the country's history of slavery and it...

Jul 31, 2022

Monkeypox: Experts at AIDS conference say the current global response is not enough

MONTREAL - A panel of scientists and activists at the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal are urging worldwide governments to ramp up resources to handle the monkeypox outbreaks. The plea comes as intern...

Jul 31, 2022

Liberals give themselves more time to meet five-year-old peacekeeping pledge

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is giving itself more time to fulfil a key peacekeeping promise to the UN first made five years ago. The commitment involves the provision of a 200-soldier quick reacti...

Jul 31, 2022

Sacred site or rallying point? The politicization of Canada's National War Memorial

OTTAWA - The sacrifices of Canadians who fought and died for democracy and freedom during the Korean War were honoured during a small ceremony last week at the National War Memorial. The ceremonial pl...

Jul 31, 2022

Saudi-born Canadian gets life sentence in U.S. for ISIS propaganda support, terrorism

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization...

Jul 30, 2022

Police shoot man after officer wounded with weapon in rough Vancouver neighbourhood

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver shot and injured a man Saturday after an officer was allegedly attacked with a weapon while on patrol in the city's Downtown Eastside. Const. Tania Visintin says in a s...

Jul 30, 2022

Pope's visit to Canada sparks calls to renounce centuries-old Doctrine of Discovery

OTTAWA - As Pope Francis travelled across Canada, so did a demand to revisit centuries-old declarations. At the front of a basilica in Quebec, where the 85-year-old pontiff prepared to preside over ma...

Jul 30, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Pope says Indigenous people suffered genocide at residential schools

ROME - Pope Francis says the abuses Indigenous Peoples faced while being forced to attend residential schools amounted to genocide. The pontiff made the comment while speaking to reporters on a flight...

Jul 30, 2022

May readies Green leadership bid, asked MP Mike Morrice to consider running: sources

OTTAWA - Elizabeth May, who is preparing a bid for the leadership of the Green Party, first asked the only other Green MP if he would consider taking the helm before she decided to apply for her old j...

Jul 29, 2022

Deleted bookmark led to child pornography site that depicted Amanda Todd: Crown

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A Crown attorney says a device seized from the home of the Dutch man accused of harassing British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd contained a deleted bookmark to a child pornogra...

Jul 29, 2022