Canada

'It's such a big loss': Sister says family in shock after brother killed in Quebec

Just hours after Marie-Jo Duchesne had shared laughs with her older brother, who'd been out hiking on a sunny Saturday in Quebec, the heartbreaking call came informing her of Francois Duchesne's death...

Nov 02, 2020

N.B. shooter returns to stand at Fredericton first-degree murder trial

FREDERICTON - Matthew Raymond is back on the witness stand today as his murder trial in connection with the 2018 mass shooting in Fredericton enters its eighth week. Raymond, 50, is charged with first...

Nov 02, 2020

Extra mental health supports in place in grief-stricken Quebec after sword attack

QUEBEC - Extra mental health supports have been made available for those in Quebec's capital after the city was shaken by a deadly sword attack on Halloween night. The province's public securit...

Nov 02, 2020

Parks Canada plans first captive breeding program for Jasper National Park caribou

EDMONTON - Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding progr...

Nov 02, 2020

QuickQuotes: Public figures react to deadly stabbing rampage in Quebec City

Quebec City is reeling after police arrested a suspect in a stabbing incident late Saturday that left two people dead and five others injured. News of the violent attack prompted several politicians, ...

Nov 01, 2020

'It means a lot': Planning underway for permanent Humboldt Broncos crash memorial

TISDALE, Sask. - The makeshift memorial of hockey sticks, jerseys, flowers and crosses is weathered and worn by time. The only thing vivid are the memories and the pain. It was April 2018 when the dri...

Nov 01, 2020

Flippers, ribs and intestines: Annual walrus hunt in Iqaluit a chance for fresh meat

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A man slides a walrus flipper the size of his arm into a black garbage bag and ties it up with a grin. A woman carefully handles a set of ribs, tucks them into a grocery bag a...

Nov 01, 2020

'It means a lot': Planning underway for permanent Humboldt Broncos crash memorial

TISDALE, Sask. - The makeshift memorial of hockey sticks, jerseys, flowers and crosses is weathered and worn by time. The only thing vivid are the memories and the pain. It was April 2018 when the dri...

Nov 01, 2020

Mom of naval officer killed in 2004 submarine fire named Silver Cross mother

OTTAWA - Debbie Sullivan vividly remembers the last time she saw her son Chris Saunders alive more than 16 years ago.The 32-year-old naval lieutenant had driven his young family from Halifax to his mo...

Nov 01, 2020

Advocates say provinces should invest CERB savings in social welfare programs

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - At a time when anxieties were expected to run high for everyone, the Calgary Counselling Centre saw something surprising during the pandemic lockdown period: distress levels in thei...

Nov 01, 2020