Canada

'Hateful and mean': LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party's proposed change room policy

Blake Tait says he's still healing from being outed by his school's guidance counsellor when he was 14. Feeling safe at his school in Saskatoon, he started telling people he was transgender. But he fe...

Oct 19, 2024

'Sleeping with an elephant:' What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?

WASHINGTON - Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as "sleeping with an elephant," a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year's tumultuous and polarized Ame...

Marty Hastings Oct 19, 2024

Where will B.C.'s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch

British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of ...

Oct 19, 2024

B.C. voters face a once-unthinkable election choice, after stunning rise of Rustad

VANCOUVER - The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of t...

Oct 19, 2024

Groundwater at Eagle Gold mine in Yukon shows high cyanide levels

The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine's ore containment facility failed in June "continue to reveal high levels of cyanide." In a written update, the Yukon government ...

Oct 18, 2024

Lawyer for family members of Pickton's victims wants copy of killer's 'tell all book'

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he'll be asking for a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he died follow...

Oct 18, 2024

Ottawa says businesses can request tariff exemption on Chinese goods

OTTAWA - The federal government says businesses can now request remission from newly announced tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products. Ottawa says the relief is aimed at ...

Oct 18, 2024

Five things on proposed landmark $32.5-billion tobacco deal

MONTREAL - Three tobacco giants are set to pay out roughly $32.5 billion in a landmark deal that would settle decades of litigation with provinces and individual smokers and their families. The propos...

Oct 18, 2024

Supreme Court tosses driving prohibition against Saskatchewan man in fatal crash

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has struck down a driving prohibition handed to a Saskatchewan man convicted in a fatal highway crash. Braydon Wolfe was driving on the wrong side of a divided highway near...

Oct 18, 2024

NDP says Sask. Party's Moe needs to answer for campaign comment on children

REGINA - The NDP says the Saskatchewan Party's Scott Moe needs to provide answers after a candidate's two children and their use of a school change room were brought up in the election campaign. Moe s...

Oct 18, 2024