Canada

Dumping day: Lobster fishing season opens in southwestern Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's fall lobster fishing season opened early today in the two most lucrative fishing areas in Canada. The annual event off southwestern Nova Scotia is known as "dumping day," as th...

Dec 01, 2021

Dozens of weather warnings in effect across soaked British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A landslide closed traffic today on the same highway near Agassiz, B.C., where motorists were trapped between slides caused by major rainstorms last month. DriveBC says the road has been r...

Greg Fry Dec 01, 2021

Hundreds of Quebec daycares closed by general strike as contract talks stall

MONTREAL - Roughly 400 public daycare centres across Quebec are closed as of today after contract talks hit an impasse and employees with one of the main unions declared a general strike. About 10,000...

Dec 01, 2021

Ottawa, provinces mull expansion of COVID-19 tests for arriving American travellers

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says it's too early to say whether Canada's latest requirement to test arriving air travellers for COVID-19 will be extended to include those coming from the ...

Dec 01, 2021

Federal government needs to up spending to give First Nations clean water, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would need to increase planned spending to provide clean drinking water in First Nations. Yves Giroux's report this morning says t...

Dec 01, 2021

Province orders new probe after second arrest video by Quebec City police goes viral

Quebec's public security minister has ordered a second investigation into the Quebec City police over another video of a violent arrest. Genevive Guilbault announced today she's asking the police ethi...

Dec 01, 2021

Conversion therapy bill, another storm for BC: In The News for Dec. 1

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Dec 01, 2021

Supreme Court ruling could change how human rights law is applied in Quebec

MONTREAL - After Marco Ayotte's uncle used a homophobic slur toward him in July 2018 and said he should kill himself, Ayotte didn't just fume about a vulgar, insensitive relative. He filed a complaint...

Dec 01, 2021

O'Toole to allow free vote for Conservative MPs on new conversion therapy ban

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole will once again allow his caucus to have a free vote on a government bill seeking to ban conversion therapy. The so-called therapy is widely discredited as a ...

Dec 01, 2021

Little progress made to combat anti-Indigenous racism in B.C. health care: report

VANCOUVER - A progress report on a plan to address anti-Indigenous racism in British Columbia's health-care system says Aboriginal patients continue to disproportionately die as a result of the impact...

Nov 30, 2021