Category Archives: Canada

Quebec to ban cellphones in elementary and high schools during entire school day
QUBEC - The Quebec government is expanding its cellphone ban in schools, prohibiting the devices on the grounds of the province's elementary and high schools for the entire school day. Education Minis...
May 01, 2025

Share of Americans ranking Canada as top ally U.S. doubles despite Trump's rhetoric
OTTAWA - Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claim that Canada has been ripping off the United States, new polling suggests the proportion of Americans identifying Canada as their country's...
May 01, 2025

Here's what the Liberals promised for health care. But can they deliver?
TORONTO - Until U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty came along, many thought health care would be a key issue in the federal election. Instead, it came across as ...
May 01, 2025

Alberta seeks court ruling on constitutionality of Ottawa's clean electricity plan
EDMONTON - Alberta's government is seeking a court ruling on the constitutionality of Ottawa's clean electricity grid regulations. The regulations were finalized late last year and lay out a plan to d...
May 01, 2025

Top court to look at whether challenge of ethics ruling in Trudeau case can proceed
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether a group's challenge of a federal ethics report on Justin Trudeau's involvement in a decision about WE Charity can proceed. In May 2021, then-f...
May 01, 2025

Indigenous chiefs call for Alberta Premier Smith to stop stoking separatism talk
EDMONTON - Two First Nations chiefs are accusing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of "attempting to manufacture a national unity crisis" and are calling on her to stop stoking the fires of separatism. S...
May 01, 2025

Vancouver artist who was mother of two identified among Vancouver festival victims
VANCOUVER - Family members and friends of those killed in a vehicle attack at a Vancouver festival are coming forward to tell the stories of their loved ones. A 30-year-old man faces a series of secon...
May 01, 2025

Ontario man arrested in Dominican Republic still stuck after charges dropped: family
The wife of a Canadian man who was arrested in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of smuggling drugs says all charges against him have been dropped, but he remains stuck there indefinitely. J...
May 01, 2025

Assembly of First Nations joins calls for Hudson's Bay to return ceremonial items
WINNIPEG - The Assembly of First Nations is joining calls for Hudson's Bay to immediately halt the sale of artifacts and return any cultural, ceremonial and sacred items to the Indigenous communities ...
May 01, 2025

No more public money for Lion Electric, Quebec government says
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it won't invest more public money in Lion Electric, putting the electric-vehicle maker's future in doubt. Economy Minister Christine Frchette said in a statement ...
May 01, 2025