Category Archives: Canada

Postelection review to probe where Conservatives bled votes to People's Party, NDP
OTTAWA - The former MP leading the review into the Conservatives' election performance says it will examine how Tories lost votes to Maxime Bernier's People's Party of Canada. James Cumming, an Albert...
Oct 19, 2021

Nunavut groups to ship down water bottles from Iqaluit for recycling
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A group of companies in Nunavut have teamed up to recycle thousands of plastic water bottles from Iqaluit. The city's tap water hasn't been drinkable for a week after it was found t...
Oct 19, 2021

Green Party lays off core staff members amid financial drought, internal strife
OTTAWA - Layoffs are once again hitting the Green Party as party brass look to shave costs at an organization facing persistent financial and political woes. Three senior party officials, who were gra...
Oct 19, 2021

Refugee family settling in Peterborough, Ont., after long journey from Afghanistan
PETERBOROUGH - Parwaiz Hamidy's two young sons are all smiles as they rush down a slide at a park in Peterborough, Ont. The boys and their parents are half a world away from the chaos of Kabul, having...
Oct 19, 2021

Montreal police seek teen suspects in stabbing death of 16-year-old boy
Montreal police are looking for three suspects after a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed Monday afternoon in the city's west end. Police confirmed Monday night that the victim had died from his inju...
Oct 19, 2021

Historic Alberta elections, Quebec government restart : In The News for Oct. 19
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 Oct. 19 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Oct 19, 2021

Legault government hits reset with inaugural speech ahead of 2022 provincial election
Quebec Premier Franois Legault's government will set out its priorities for the rest of its mandate with an inaugural speech later today. Legault announced Oct. 7 he was proroguing the province's legi...
Oct 19, 2021

'We have made the impossible possible': Calgary, Edmonton celebrate mayoral firsts
Alberta's two major cities are set to make history in their mayoral races after Monday's municipal elections across the province. Jyoti Gondek is to become Calgary's first female mayor and Edmonton vo...
Oct 18, 2021

Feds sending more help to NWT to deal with COVID-19 surge
OTTAWA - The federal government is sending more help to the Northwest Territories to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says Ottawa has approved a request from the ...
Oct 18, 2021

NewsAlert: Pfizer officially requests Health Canada approval for kids' COVID-19 shot
OTTAWA - Pfizer has asked Health Canada to approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11 years old. As soon as the regulator gives the green light, providers will be able to start of...
Oct 18, 2021