Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault's ultimatum to the Quebec government on caribou protection is a sign Ottawa is losing patience with provinces that aren't upholding their resp...

KYIV, UKRAINE - On the evening before Russian forces crossed the border into Ukraine, Igor Volzhanin met up with a friend at a coffee shop at the centre of Kyiv."We stayed there until about midnight j...

OTTAWA - Small business owners have made a plea to the federal finance minister to consider more help paying off their pandemic-related debts as the sixth wave of COVID-19 causes customers to stay hom...

MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA - A survivor of British Columbia's catastrophic floods last year is warning others to check their insurance policies after she said she received a payout of only $30,000 when...

CALGARY - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is committed to seeking justice for Ukrainian women and children as allegations mount of sexual violence by Russian soldiers. Speaking in ...

OTTAWA - Canada's greenhouse gas emissions plummeted to their lowest level in almost three decades in 2020 as pandemic restrictions kept cars off the road and left airplanes grounded on tarmacs. The l...

Easier access to COVID-19 vaccine boosters could be a way of addressing the plateauing rates of Canadians getting the shot, public health and immunology experts say. Matthew Miller, professor at McMas...

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge says the appointment of a unilingual anglophone to the post of lieutenant-governor in the province was unconstitutional, but that striking down the appointment woul...

OTTAWA - Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge says $16 million in the budget to help stamp out maltreatment and sexual abuse in sport will ensure Canada's athletes feel safe and that their voices will be h...

OTTAWA - Canada's housing minister says federal funding to ramp up the pace of new builds will also look to target the kind of homes required to meet the changing needs of Canadians. Housing Minister ...