Category Archives: Canada

Federal riding profile: Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region
The Chicoutimi-Le Fjord riding in Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region may be the ultimate swing riding. In the last four federal elections, electors have voted in candidates from four different parti...
Sep 15, 2021

One dead after helicopter rolls on landing near Nunavut gold mine
CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut - One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a cont...
Sep 15, 2021

Stray bullet, not targeted shooting, to blame for officer's injury: Montreal police
Montreal police say gunfire last month outside an area hospital that was initially thought to have targeted officers was actually stray bullets. The shooting took place at about 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 24 i...
Sep 15, 2021

On the campaign trail and August inflation numbers : In The News for Sept. 15
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 Sept. 15 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Sep 15, 2021

B.C. man who murdered a family of six on camping trip in 1982 seeking parole
BOWDEN, ALBERTA - A man convicted of the mass murder of a family nearly 40 years ago is to seek his release once again when he appears today before the Parole Board of Canada. David Shearing, who now ...
Sep 15, 2021

Campaign has Trudeau in Halifax, O'Toole in Quebec and Singh in Ontario
The three main party leaders are in Eastern and Central Canada today, a day after a new poll suggested the already close race is getting even tighter. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau gets his day starte...
Sep 15, 2021

More than 150,000 people in Canada experience 'long COVID' symptoms: report
TORONTO - More research is needed to understand the so-called "long COVID" condition and the burden it poses on the health-care system, a science advisory group said in a report Tuesday. The Ontario C...
Sep 14, 2021

Teal Cedar Products asks B.C. court for one-year injunction extension at Fairy Creek
NANAIMO, B.C. - A British Columbia forestry company is in court applying for a one-year extension of an injunction against ongoing old-growth logging protests on southern Vancouver Island. A lawyer fo...
Sep 14, 2021

Dozens of lawyers call for suspension of extradition with France over Diab case
OTTAWA - More than 100 legal professionals are asking Canada to suspend its extradition treaty with France over concerns "an innocent man" could face trial there in a terrorism case. In May, a French ...
Sep 14, 2021

Officials too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths at Montreal care home: witness
MONTREAL - An auxiliary nurse told a coroner's inquest today that health authorities were too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths in a Montreal-area long-term care home when some of them were in fact c...
Sep 14, 2021