Category Archives: Canada
Biden to host Canadian, Mexican leaders at first Three Amigos summit since 2016
OTTAWA - The Three Amigos are back on. The White House announced this morning that U.S. President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in...
Nov 10, 2021
Wide-ranging analysis finds negative overall impacts from coal mining in Rockies
CALGARY - An analysis from the University of Calgary concludes that a coal mine on protected land on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains wouldn't be an overall benefit to Alberta. A paper from t...
Nov 10, 2021
B.C. study shows sustainable management of salmon fishery before colonization
VANCOUVER - A new study confirms what Michelle George's family has told her about their Tsleil-Waututh ancestors' fishing practices of targeting male salmon both for their meat and to sustain the fish...
Nov 10, 2021
New B.C. veterans centre, using music to help with PTSD: In The News for Nov. 10
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 Nov. 10 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Nov 10, 2021
War veteran Trevor Greene gives experience to Surrey, B.C., Veterans Village project
Canadian war veteran Trevor Greene knows what it's like to navigate treatment after a life-threatening injury, combined with post-traumatic stress, prompting his decisionto take on an advising role at...
Nov 10, 2021
'We managed to survive': 100-year-old veteran remembers Second World War airfields
CLARESHOLM, Alta. - Hangar 4 has seen better days. Only scraps of its original white paint remain. The rest has been sandblasted away by 80 years of winds that sweep down from the Rocky Mountains west...
Nov 10, 2021
Bank of Canada governor says central bank's role includes reducing inequality
OTTAWA - The governor of the Bank of Canada has laid down an argument for the central bank's actions during the pandemic, hours after the country's opposition leader suggested the bank stay in its inf...
Nov 09, 2021
Logging truck collides with RCMP vehicles headed to enforce B.C. injunction
PORT RENFREW, B.C. - Mounties on southern Vancouver Island say three officers were hospitalized with injuries after a collision involving a logging truck Tuesday morning. The RCMP say the officers wer...
Nov 09, 2021
Quebec religious symbols ban will apply to English schools until appeal decided
MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal will not allow the English Montreal School Board to hire teachers who wear religious symbols while an appeal of a lower court decision on Quebec's secularism law ...
Nov 09, 2021
NDP calls for patent waiver to make and ship COVID-19 vaccines to countries in need
OTTAWA - The NDP is calling on the federal government to waive the patent on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to allow a Canadian manufacturer to export a low-cost version to Bolivia. The Bo...
Nov 09, 2021