Canada

B.C. surf town cuts out plastic forks, knives in growing pollution prevention efforts

VICTORIA - A coastal British Columbia community known for seemingly endless beaches and rolling waves that call out to surfers has banned single-use plastic cutlery in a move to keep its ocean playgro...

Mar 20, 2022

HMCS Halifax departs to Europe for NATO support during Russian invasion of Ukraine

HALIFAX - A second Canadian warship left Halifax on Saturday to support NATO efforts in northern European waters, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened his Incident Response Group to disc...

Mar 19, 2022

Montreal heads toward the weekend with violent Friday night, three attempted murders

Montreal police say they are investigating three separate attempted murders that happened at almost the same time late Friday night. Sgt. Raphal Bergeron, a Montreal police spokesman, says a 19-year o...

Mar 19, 2022

Pandemic underscores value of culturally sensitive Indigenous health care: experts

Doctors and front-line agencies say COVID-19 has underscored the value of culturally sensitive and community-based health-care services for Indigenous people and the need to continue them past the pan...

Mar 19, 2022

Montreal subway extension delayed until 2029 as cost estimate rises to $6.4 billion

MONTREAL - The long-planned extension of a Montreal subway line will open in 2029 and cost some $6.4 billion, government officials said Friday. It is the fifth time in the last 33 years that politicia...

Mar 18, 2022

Beaver Lake Cree Nation to prove anew it needs funding for suit against feds, Alberta

OTTAWA - An Alberta First Nation fighting what it calls overdevelopment of its traditional territory has been given a second chance to convince the courts that governments should advance money for its...

Mar 18, 2022

Quebec seniors home investigated for alleged mistreatment of workers from Africa

LVIS, Que. - Quebec's labour minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that a private seniors residence in Lvis, Que., paid workers from Africa just $70 a week to work as orderlies f...

Mar 18, 2022

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says western countries more unified than ever

TORONTO - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says the Russian invasion of Ukraine has unified western nations like never before and strengthened NATO's alliance. Speaking to a crowd at the Universit...

Mar 18, 2022

Dikes to protect N.S.-N.B. link from flooding expected to cost hundreds of millions

HALIFAX - An engineering study looking at three options to save the land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from climate-related flooding is pegging costs at between $189 million and just over...

Mar 18, 2022

Convoy protest cost Ottawa $36.3 million, city memo says

OTTAWA - Local leaders in Ottawa are being told that the city's response to the three-week convoy protest last month cost municipal coffers over $36 million. A memo to councillors released by the city...

Mar 18, 2022