Canada

Opioid overdoses claimed more than 3,200 lives in first nine months of 2018

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has released new data showing that than 3,200 Canadians died after apparent opioid-related overdoses between January and September last year. The data ...

Apr 10, 2019

Schools struggle with phone bans:'These devices continue to cause major problems'

On Friday, March 29, St. Francis School in Harbour Grace, N.L., announced a ban on cellphones and other personal electronics for its students, who range from kindergarten through Grade 8. "These devic...

Apr 10, 2019

Montreal offers to help find new homes for carriage horses as industry ends

Montreal is announcing a program to help ensure the city's caleche horses are sent for adoption after the horse-drawn carriage industry is shut down at the end of th...

Apr 10, 2019

Romania would welcome Canadian help in minimizing gap in Mali: envoy

OTTAWA - Romania's top diplomat in Canada says his country is moving as fast as it can to minimize a looming gap in the provision of lifesaving medical evacuations for injured UN peacekeepers and staf...

Apr 10, 2019

Report on missing, murdered Indigenous women to be released in June

OTTAWA - A much-anticipated report on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is set to be released to the public in June. The four-person commission asked to examine the causes of violence ag...

Apr 10, 2019

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques says first spacewalk was 'pure joy'

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says it will likely take him years to fully absorb the experience of walking outside the International Space Station. Saint-Jacques spoke to repo...

Apr 10, 2019

Former Harper cabinet minister hanging up his federal political hat

OTTAWA - Rob Nicholson, the longest-serving Conservative member of Parliament, isn't running for re-election in the fall. Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabine...

Apr 10, 2019

Trudeau defends changes to asylum laws that have refugee workers alarmed

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending a changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill tabled this week, saying his government is working to ensure Canada's refugee system is ...

Apr 10, 2019

Trudeau says mayor who compared Quebec bill to ethnic cleansing should apologize

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined the chorus of politicians calling on a suburban Montreal mayor to apologize for likening Quebec secularism legislation to ethnic cleansing. Speaking t...

Apr 10, 2019

Coroner's inquest into deadly stage collapse at Radiohead show reconvenes

TORONTO - A coroner's inquest into the death of a drum technician who was crushed when a stage collapsed before a Radiohead concert is reconvening roughly a day after the jury began its deliberat...

Apr 10, 2019