Canada

Doctors, lawyers want B.C. to track injuries after record heat wave

VANCOUVER - Two groups focused on environmental issues are calling on the British Columbia government to come up with a plan to track "heat dome injuries" following record-setting temperatures that ar...

Greg Fry Jul 30, 2021

Telltale transactions help financial intelligence centre combat sex trafficking

OTTAWA - Transactional clues - from hotel bills paid in cash to purchases of escort-service ads - are helping Canada's financial intelligence agency detect human trafficking in the sex trade. The Fina...

Jul 30, 2021

Nunavut opens travel bubble with Nunavik as pandemic restrictions ease

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The government of Nunavut says residents of the territory and of Arctic Quebec can now travel freely between both regions as long as they've been in a community for at least 14 days...

Jul 29, 2021

Archdiocese apologizes after priest accuses residential school survivors of lying

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg archdiocese will no longer allow a Catholic priest to preach publicly or teach after he suggested during a sermon that residential school survivors lied to get settlement money. ...

Jul 29, 2021

Conservatives push feds to ensure Canadians who got mixed vaccines can travel abroad

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are urging the Liberal government to do more to ensure that Canadians who received two different doses of COVID-19 vaccines are able to travel internationally. Tory ...

Jul 29, 2021

Michèle Audette, commissioner of MMIWG inquiry, among five named to Senate

OTTAWA - Michle Audette, one of the commissioners for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is among the five newest members of the Senate.Audette was named as a s...

Jul 29, 2021

Tons of rock break off Stawamus Chief in Squamish, B.C., possibly due to heat

SQUAMISH, B.C. - Numerous rock climbing routes on the renowned Grand Wall of the Stawamus Chief in Squamish, B.C., are closed after a large slab broke off. The society that supports rock climbing in t...

Jul 29, 2021

New Brunswick to lift remaining COVID-19 restrictions, but experts warn of relapse

HALIFAX - As New Brunswick prepares to drop virtually all of its COVID-19 restrictions Friday night, some infectious disease experts are warning the province should prepare for a surge in cases this f...

Jul 29, 2021

Border workers' union, employers to return to bargaining table after strike threat

OTTAWA - A union representing about 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency workers says its members' employers have agreed to return to the bargaining table following a strike threat made earlier this w...

Jul 29, 2021

Habs' sponsors satisfied with team owner's apology for drafting Logan Mailloux

MONTREAL - Corporate sponsors for the Montreal Canadiens are saying they are satisfied with the apology from team owner Geoff Molson for drafting a player who was convicted of a sex crime in Sweden. R...

Jul 29, 2021