Category Archives: Canada

IQALUIT - People in Iqaluit can drink the city's tap water again after 60 days of living under a do-not-consume notice. The notice was lifted Friday by Nunavut's Health Department. Residents of the te...

MONTREAL - A 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a teacher was stabbed in a Montreal high school classroom Thursday. The provincial prosecution service said the teenager, who ...

WASHINGTON - Canada is threatening a retaliatory barrage of punitive tariffs and to reverse a number of dairy-related trade concessions if the United States goes through with its controversial plan to...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says a new law to single out health care workers for special protection from intimidation and threats at work is a response to a need identified by the workers ...

MONTREAL - Premier Franois Legault says a school board in western Quebec should not have hired a teacher who wore a hijab. Legault told reporters today in Quebec City the province's secularism law, kn...

OTTAWA - John Letts says he's on a mission to save his son Jack's life, but also to change the way people think about him. Letts, who lives in England, is in Ottawa this week to press federal official...

OTTAWA - Marci Ien, minister for women and gender equality and youth, has gone into self-isolation after attending an in-person event where she may have come in contact with several COVID-19 cases. Jo...

OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada says Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor confessed to crimes before their release from his country's prisons this past September. Envoy Cong Peiwu also says Canada ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are under increasing pressure to fix an issue in the pandemic safety net that has rolled back or cut off benefits to low-income seniors. About 83,000 seniors lost a key i...

OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says a resurgence of COVID-19 is forecast for Canada and it could speed up even more if the Omicron variant replaces Delta. New federal modelling s...