Canada

Legion hoping sense of normalcy returns to this year's poppy campaign

The Royal Canadian Legion is hoping its annual poppy campaign regains a sense of normalcy this year as fewer pandemic restrictions are in place across the country. In the lead-up to Remembrance Day, t...

Nov 01, 2021

Mom of only Quebec soldier killed in Afghanistan named Silver Cross mother

OTTAWA - Jose Simard still recalls the spirit of playful mischief that ran through her daughter, Karine Blais, going back to grade school in rural Quebec. "Once we had a turtle at home. I was brushing...

Nov 01, 2021

Quebec City honours victims on first anniversary of deadly sword attack

MONTREAL - Officials in Quebec's capital held ceremonies and urged residents to come together on Sunday to honour the victims and survivors of a deadly sword attack that unfolded one year ago. The Hal...

Oct 31, 2021

Trudeau says climate progress made at G20, though Canada wanted more ambitious plan

ROME - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada wanted a stronger and more ambitious agreement on climate change to emerge from the G20 summit. The final communique today from the two-day gathering r...

Aaron Schulze Oct 31, 2021

'We need help': Nunavut politician wants mental-health facility in his community

GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - Tony Akoak's house sits atop what Gjoa Haven's residents call the uptown, a hill that overlooks the turquoise Arctic Ocean in the otherwise flat Nunavut community. Inside, the li...

Oct 31, 2021

End of quantitative easing shadows Liberals' consultation on managing federal debt

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's move to end its pandemic-driven purchases of government bonds to stimulate the economy, and warnings of rate hikes sooner than previously expected, has coloured federal e...

Aaron Schulze Oct 31, 2021

'You cannot just raise the flags and replace it with nothing': AFN national chief

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says there needs to be another symbolic gesture made to recognize the genocide of Indigenous children if Canada wants to raise its flag. Ro...

Oct 31, 2021

Freeland downplays impact absence of leaders from China, Russia may have at G20 talks

ROME - Canada's deputy prime minister says the absence of leaders from China and Russia at the G20 summit in Italy this weekend isn't ideal, but isn't commenting on the impact that may have on tough c...

Oct 30, 2021

'Listening to Manitobans:' A profile of Manitoba's next premier Heather Stefanson

WINNIPEG - Heather Stefanson'ssuccessfulbid to lead the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives and take the premier's chair follows a lifetime in and around politics that started as a young girl. She was ...

Oct 30, 2021

Northern lights may be visible in much of the country this weekend after solar storm

MONTREAL - The northern lights may be visible Saturday and Sunday in parts of the country where they're rarely seen. The federally-funded AuroraMAX observatory in Yellowknife said in a post on social ...

Oct 30, 2021