Canada

Canadian Army veterans traumatized from service connect with horses in therapy

MONTREAL - Canadian Army veterans are healing their psychological wounds with some help from equine friends. Since starting equine therapy last June, Christian has regularly visited Mirabel's Equi-Sen...

Nov 10, 2024

Liberals to face third test in federal byelection in British Columbia next month

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced voters in Cloverdale-Langley City will pick their next member of Parliament on Dec. 16. The byelection in British Columbia will be a third test for the...

Nov 10, 2024

Port employers 'refusing to bargain,' cut off talks in less than an hour: Union

VANCOUVER - The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that th...

Nov 10, 2024

'It is urgent': Alberta military reservists eager to join Canadian Forces in Latvia

SUFFIELD, Alta. - A pair of 105-mm howitzers bark constantly as they turn plywood tank targets into kindling kilometres away on the windswept landscape of one of Canada's largest military bases. It's ...

Nov 10, 2024

Public memorial for Murray Sinclair, who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

WINNIPEG - A national commemorative ceremony is being held today in honour of Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools. Go...

Victor Kaisar Nov 10, 2024

A new generation is bringing people back to abandoned Newfoundland towns

HICKMAN'S HARBOUR, N.L. - Brian Avery was three years old when he and his parents packed their belongings into a boat and pulled away from Deer Harbour, N.L., leaving behind their home, their way of l...

Nov 10, 2024

COP29 primer: Canada's priorities at the global climate talks, and the Trump impact

Canada could be an important consensus builder at this year's international climate negotiations, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said, while downplaying concerns that Donald...

Nov 10, 2024

Port workers' union accuses BC Maritime Employers Association of ending talks early

A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early. The International L...

Nov 10, 2024

First presumptive human case of avian flu acquired in Canada detected in teen

British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected in B.C. A statement from the office of the provincial health officer says a...

Nov 09, 2024

Museum to honour Chinese Canadian troops who fought in war and for citizenship rights

VANCOUVER - Former B.C. judge Randall (Bud) Wong remembers getting out of bed early one morning when he was five to greet his uncle at the train station in Vancouver at the end of the Second World War...

Nov 09, 2024