Canada

'Election seems really close': Americans in Canada cast ballot ahead of U.S. election

EDMONTON - Stephen Winters says watching the U.S. election campaign from Canada as a dual citizen is like a parent watching their kid play sports. "When you're on the sideline it makes you more nervou...

Marty Hastings Nov 02, 2024

Supporters share cautious optimism and anxiety ahead of divisive U.S. election

MILWAUKEE - Tens of thousands of people from opposite sides of the political divide gathered at duelling rallies in Wisconsin on Friday, hosted by Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Don...

Nov 02, 2024

Why so many elections in 2024? Chalk it up to the 'beauty of math,' says professor

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Tuesday's vote in the United States may be dominating social media feeds, but it is just one of more than 70 national elections that will have taken place this year by the end of De...

Nov 02, 2024

CSIS tracked intelligence flow across government in foreign interference leak probe

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service tracked the flow of its intelligence reports across government and studied how other agencies handled them as part of an investigation into leaks of classified informatio...

Nov 02, 2024

Court approves buffer zone ahead of expected protests at Vancouver Sikh temple

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between pro...

Nov 01, 2024

Alberta Appeal Court upholds sentence for Ontario trucker in Edmonton hotel killing

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a...

Nov 01, 2024

Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French

MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits c...

Nov 01, 2024

Thieves speed off with bronze statue of Formula One racing legend Gilles Villeneuve

MONTREAL - A museum dedicated to revered Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve is racing to find its stolen bronze statue of the Quebec speedster before it gets melted down for cash. Alain Bellehumeur,...

Nov 01, 2024

Limit on preliminary inquiries doesn't apply to some ongoing cases: Supreme Court

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a change to the law that limited the right of an accused person to a preliminary inquiry does not apply to some ongoing cases. The top court's ruling today he...

Nov 01, 2024

B.C. port employers issue lockout notice in labour dispute with foremen union

VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 for...

Nov 01, 2024