Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Half of the 16 million Canadians trying to reach one of three government agencies by telephone are unable to speak to live humans, according to Canada's interim auditor general. In a new...

MONTREAL - Canada is holding out hope it can collaborate with the Trump administration on Arctic challenges even though the United States has blocked the Arctic Council from issuing a unanimous declar...

OTTAWA - The RCMP isn't sure that all its officers have access to the rifles and body armour needed to respond to an active shooter, almost five years after three Mounties were gunned down i...

OTTAWA - Acting auditor general Sylvain Ricard has found Canada's refugee system is plagued with a backlog of asylum claims that is worse now than it has ever been, caused in part by systemic ine...

OTTAWA - A Canadian senator who has spent four decades advocating for the rights of vulnerable people in Canadian prisons says a new bill that purports to end solitary confinement should be ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a B.C. byelection win for the Green party shows Canadians are "preoccupied" by climate change. Trudeau says it will be really important for Canadi...

PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...

OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia cabinet minister says the federal government would welcome any help the United States could offer in helping Canada in its ongoing dispute with China. "I would say that it would...

NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jub...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, May 7 --- UN REPORT HAS MESSAGE FOR CANADA: CO-AUTHOR A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that "fundamental,...