Canada

Ontario voters head to the polls for election day after snap winter campaign

TORONTO - Ontario's political party leaders have criss-crossed the province, released their platforms and made their pitches over the past month - now it's decision day for voters. It has been an unus...

Feb 27, 2025

Amid tariff and trade war talk, small-town mayors try to keep it friendly on border

Osoyoos Mayor Sue McKortoff likens the situation facing the scenic B.C. community just a few kilometres from the U.S. border to that of her own family. She said she's been asked recently how she deals...

Feb 27, 2025

Minister to apologize for relocations of Inuit decades ago

OTTAWA - Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree will apologize on behalf of the federal government Thursday for its role in the Dundas Harbour relocations between 1934 and 1948. The r...

Feb 27, 2025

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

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government announced Thursday that potential human remains have been found at a landfill north of Winnipeg, where search teams have been looking for two slain First Nations wom...

Feb 26, 2025

Canadian privacy commissioner to investigate X's use of personal data to train AI

OTTAWA - Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says he will investigate whether social media platform X is respecting the law on the use of Canadians' personal information. In a letter to New Democra...

Feb 26, 2025

Possible human remains found in search for slain women at Winnipeg-area landfill

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says potential human remains have been discovered at a landfill where search teams have been working to find two slain First Nations women. The province says steps a...

Feb 26, 2025

Court of Appeal upholds ruling that CP Rail was not liable for Lac-Mégantic disaster

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a 2022 lower court ruling that found Canadian Pacific Railway did not have legal liability for the Lac-Mgantic rail disaster that killed 47 people. The p...

Feb 26, 2025

Alaska woman sentenced for laser attack that injured Canadian military aircrew

FAIRBANKS - A woman from Delta Junction, Alaska, has been handed three years of probation for using a powerful laser to interfere with a joint military operation, injuring three Canadian aircrew membe...

Feb 26, 2025

Lifetime teaching ban for former B.C. school counsellor after child porn conviction

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A former high-school counsellor has been given a lifetime ban from teaching in British Columbia after he was convicted of possessing child pornography. A document outlining an ...

Feb 26, 2025

Quebec caps international students but is hazy on numbers

MONTREAL - Quebec is taking steps to cut the number of international students in the province, but can't say by how many. The government will issue a maximum of around 124,000 acceptance certificates ...

Feb 26, 2025