Canada

Montreal archdiocese to release report on response to pedophile priest

MONTREAL - A review of the Catholic archdiocese of Montreal's handling of complaints against a pedophile priest is to be released today. The archdiocese enlisted former Quebec Superior Court justice P...

Nov 25, 2020

'Watching very closely': Blood services watching for impact from COVID-19 second wave

CALGARY - Canadian Blood Services is closely watching the second wave of COVID-19 to make sure the national blood supply remains secure. The organization has not been able to accommodate as many donor...

Nov 25, 2020

National child-care system would boost women's job numbers and economy, report says

OTTAWA - A new report estimates that hundreds of thousands of women could get back into the labour force if the Liberals follow through on a pledge to create a national child care system. The paper to...

Nov 25, 2020

'These spaces are lifelines:' Nunavut lockdown leaves some with nowhere to go

IQALUIT - Caribou stew simmers on a stove top while a staff member chops vegetables in an empty dining room, the sounds of his blade echoing off the walls as it hits the cutting board. This is t...

Nov 25, 2020

Despite reduction, Canada calls U.S. softwood lumber duties 'unfair,' 'unjustified'

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal government says American duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports continue to be "unfair" and "unjustified," even if they have been reduced. An administrative re...

Nov 24, 2020

Help from B.C. man allows American family to reunite in Alaska

A woman from Georgia says her family's reunion was saved by a man from British Columbia who drove her family to the Alaskan border after they got stranded and appealed for help.Lynn Marchessault began...

Nov 24, 2020

Alberta bans indoor social gatherings, expands holiday school break

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province bending precariously under the weight of record COVID-19 cases, imposed new sweeping public health restrictions Tuesday that include a ban on gath...

Nov 24, 2020

No further charges related to investigation in Bountiful, B.C.: special prosecutor

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has declined to approve any further charges against people associated with the community of Bountiful where a fundamentalist Christian sect practise...

Nov 24, 2020

Top public servant says few redactions of cabinet confidences made to WE documents

OTTAWA, Ohio - The top federal public servant says only one per cent of the 5,000-plus pages of documents the government has released on the WE Charity affair were blacked out to protect cabinet confi...

Nov 24, 2020

Families of 737 Max crash victims say plane is still unsafe, demand public inquiry

OTTAWA, Ill. - Families of Canadians killed in the Boeing 737 Max crash say the plane remains unsafe and should stay grounded, despite being cleared for takeoff by regulators in the United States. Pau...

Nov 24, 2020