Canada

'Fiscal reckoning': Alberta to outline $20B-plus deficit in financial update

EDMONTON - Albertans are to get a look at the province's biggest deficit in history when the government releases its financial update today. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has been warning that the...

Aug 27, 2020

Party leaders on New Brunswick's campaign trail scattered across province today

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's political party leaders are scattered across the province today for campaign announcements. Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs will be ...

Aug 27, 2020

Broadcasters warn of possible radio and television closures across Canada

OTTAWA - Private radio and television broadcasters are sounding the alarm about the state of their industry. The industry says the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to the closure of dozens o...

Aug 26, 2020

B.C. parents encouraged to get informed about back-to-school plans

VICTORIA - Back-to-school plans have been posted online for all 60 districts in British Columbia with an aim to offer all instruction in classrooms. However, deputy education minister Scott MacDo...

Aug 26, 2020

'I thought I did something wrong:' Video shows Mountie entering home with axe

STANLEY MISSION, Sask. - The RCMP in Saskatchewan is reviewing the behaviour of an officer captured on video yelling, swearing and carrying an axe into a home where a man inside had self-harmed. Jonas...

Aug 26, 2020

'I'm angry': some parents, teachers anxious as Quebec schoolkids head back to class

MONTREAL - Olga Maria Ruiz is reluctantly sending her 11-year-old daughter back to school in Montreal this year, armed with a few extra masks and reminders not to hug her classmates and teachers. As m...

Aug 26, 2020

No grounds to charge officers in death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet:SIU

TORONTO - Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death while trying to sidestep onto a neighbour's balcony, according to a report released Wednesday by Ontario's police watchdog, which concludes there ar...

Aug 26, 2020

At least one in three northern women sexually harassed, says StatCan survey

A survey from Statistics Canada says that more than one-third of women in the northern territories have been subjected to unwanted sexual behaviour in a public place. Almost as many have had the same ...

Aug 26, 2020

Panel overseeing prison segregation says they were blocked from doing their work

OTTAWA - An independent panel tasked with overseeing segregation of inmates in federal prisons says the Correctional Service of Canada blocked it from doing its job. In a report, chair Antho...

Aug 26, 2020

Vice-president to take the stage on Day 3 of Republican National Convention

WASHINGTON - It's Vice-President Mike Pence's turn to take the stage at the Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump's allies, friends and family members have spent the week putting a p...

Aug 26, 2020