Tag Archives: National

MONTREAL - Universit du Qubec Montral has filed for an injunction against pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment on its downtown campus a little over a week ago. UQAM is asking the Quebec...

QUBEC - A spokesman for Quebec's provincial police says British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton is in a medically induced coma after a prison attack and doctors planned to try to wake him soon. ...

OTTAWA - Canada's special envoy for combating antisemitism says she is "very interested" in exploring the idea of removing religion as a possible defence against hate speech charges, drawing concern a...

LUMBY, B.C. - Something has shifted in the pretty little village of Lumby, B.C. It's subtle, say residents of the community of 2,000 people, nestled in the hills of the North Okanagan in B.C.'s Interi...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... A fifth of foreign aid goes to refugees in Canada While Canada is one of the to...

OTTAWA - While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, one-fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada's a...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller is expected to table legislation today that would extend citizenship to some children born outside of the country. In 2009, the Conservative government change...

MONTREAL - For more than a year, an urn holding the ashes of Bridget Heffernan's brother has remained in her Montreal-area home instead of being buried in the plot at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery wh...

WHITEHORSE - Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species. The agreement covers...

MONTREAL - Montreal police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with gunshots that were fired at a Jewish school in the city in late 2023. Last November, police found bullet holes in...