Canada

Federal government announces funding to restore Wood Buffalo National Park

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will provide $60 million over three years to restore the environment of Canada's largest national park. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the money w...

Dec 21, 2020

Garneau directs CTA to develop new rules for flight cancellation refunds

Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau is directing the Canadian Transportation Agency to strengthen rules that require airlines to refund passengers for cancelled flights. In a statement Monday, Gar...

Dec 21, 2020

Feds should detail vaccination plan for Indigenous communities: NDP

OTTAWA - NDP health critic Don Davies says the federal government should come up with a plan to roll COVID-19 vaccines out in Indigenous communities immediately. Speaking to a virtual news conference ...

Dec 21, 2020

Canadian navy submarine docked extra year after leak found in main ballast tank

OTTAWA - One of the Royal Canadian Navy's beleaguered submarines is remaining in dock an extra year due to a leak in its main ballast tank, which is used to control whether it goes up or down in the w...

Dec 21, 2020

5 things we've learned about COVID-19 since the pandemic struck

VANCOUVER - When the first COVID-19 cases trickled into Canada, little was known about the novel coronavirus. Almost one year later, experts have made major strides in cracking the virus's code and un...

Greg Fry Dec 21, 2020

A look at officer shootings by police force in Canada in 2020

There were 55 police shootings that resulted in death or injury in Canada between Jan. 1 and Nov. 30 of this year. Of those, 34 were fatal. The Canadian Press tracked each shooting using information f...

Dec 21, 2020

Should police carry guns? Experts look at differences in foreign forces

Fifty-five people were killed or injured in police shootings in the first 11 months of this year and justice experts say there are lessons Canadian police forces can learn from those in other countrie...

Dec 21, 2020

Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, dubbed 'Christmas Star,' visible tonight

EDMONTON - A rare celestial event is making an already unique holiday season even more unusual, as what's been dubbed the "Christmas Star" is set to appear over Canada on Monday evening, brighter than...

Dec 21, 2020

Police shootings in 2020: The effect on officers and those they are sworn to protect

A photo and an urn sit on Christie Zebrasky's kitchen table.Each time the Winnipeg woman goes to eat, she imagines her daughter's face and wonders whether she'll ever know what happened in the moments...

Dec 21, 2020

Four of 55 reviews into police shootings completed in 2020; one officer charged

Experts say it takes time to properly investigate a police shooting - even when the public is calling for quick results - but details on the outcome must be more transparent. Of 55 police shootings th...

Dec 21, 2020