Canada

Empty shelves, idle escalators: Shoppers look for piece of history at the Bay stores

Empty shelves and idle escalators greeted shoppers Monday as they poked through Hudson's Bay stores looking for bargains and perhaps a piece of history. In Edmonton, some racks at two Bay locations we...

Mar 17, 2025

B.C. resident returns library book 64 years later, credits it for saving lives

VANCOUVER - An 83-year-old British Columbia man has returned a book to the University of B.C. Library 64 years late, but he had a good excuse. Librarian Susan Parker received a package from Robert Mur...

Mar 17, 2025

Timeline of 4 women slain in Winnipeg, demands to search landfill for remains

Manitoba RCMP confirmed Monday that a second set of remains found at a landfill north of Winnipeg have been identified as belonging to Marcedes Myran, one of two slain First Nations women who search t...

Mar 17, 2025

Court denies certification of $2.5-million Black class action lawsuit

OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge has dismissed a motion to certify a proposed class action lawsuit that was launched by Black public servants in 2020 who alleged there was systemic racism within the pub...

Mar 17, 2025

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney to be featured on Canada Post stamp

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney will be featured on a stamp as part of Canada Post's 2025 lineup. Mulroney, who died last year, served as prime minister from 1984 to 1993. Canada Post sa...

Greg Fry Mar 17, 2025

Second set of remains found at Manitoba landfill confirmed as Marcedes Myran

WINNIPEG - A second set of remains found in a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified as Marcedes Myran, who died at the hands of a serial killer in 2022, RCMP said Monday. The news came after one...

Mar 17, 2025

Rainy, warm weather leads to flooding, school closures in parts of Quebec

MONTREAL - Record warm weather has sent several Quebec rivers spilling over their banks, leading to school and road closures and voluntary evacuation notices in some parts of the province. In Beaucevi...

Mar 17, 2025

Marathon Vancouver airport hotel strike ends after 1,411 days

RICHMOND, B.C. - The union representing workers at the Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel says staff have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a nearly four-year-long strike. Unite Here Local...

Mar 17, 2025

Court finds stabbing at UWaterloo was not terrorism but was hate crime

An Ontario court has found that a stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class was not terrorism but constituted a "particularly grave" hate crime. The judge sentencing Geovanny Villalba-...

Mar 17, 2025

Poilievre says he'll repeal carbon price law, including the industrial charge

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that he will repeal the entire carbon price law if elected, including on businesses and the industrial charge. On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney ...

Mar 17, 2025