Canada

Israel losing Canadian hearts and minds as poll shows growing outrage over Gaza

A new poll suggests Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds in Canada, with more Canadians now reporting their sympathies lie with Palestinians due to moral outrage over the war in Gaza.Anoth...

Aug 07, 2025

Guatemalan man's estate entitled to redress after court says death was linked to work

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has ruled that the family of a Guatemalan farm worker crushed to death in 2021 trying to repair a flat tire on his employer's car is entitled to compensation. The h...

Aug 07, 2025

Murderer who reportedly kissed prison manager allowed to return to minimum security

PORT COQUITLAM - The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered a first-degree murderer be moved back to a minimum-security prison after he challenged his transfer to a higher-security institution for allegedly k...

Aug 07, 2025

Israel losing Canadian hearts and minds as poll shows growing outrage over Gaza

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds in Canada, with more Canadians now reporting their sympathies lie with Palestinians due to moral outrage over the war in G...

Aug 07, 2025

Time to move forward on national agency to fight forest fires, chiefs say

OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs says it's time for Ottawa to stop studying the idea of a national forest fire co-ordination agency and take action. The organization's president wants ...

Aug 07, 2025

New N.S. wildfire rules that ban on activity in woods prompt confusion, frustration

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is getting a flood of feedback from people expressing confusion and frustration over new wildfire rules that forbid spending time in the woods. There are more than...

Aug 07, 2025

Poilievre says of B.C. Premier Eby that 'one man can't block' pipeline proposal

CALGARY - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadians, including British Columbians, want a new oil pipeline and Premier David Eby can't be allowed as one man to block the project. Poilievre s...

Aug 07, 2025

CP NewsAlert: B.C.'s 2024 deficit comes in under forecast at $7.3B

VICTORIA - British Columbia's final deficit for the fiscal year has come in at $7.3 billion, $564 million lower than the original projected number in Budget 2024. The final deficit is also about $1.8 ...

Aug 07, 2025

Quebec minister disappointed after race considered in reduced sentence for Black man

A Quebec minister says he is disappointed a judge gave a Black man a reduced sentence for a drug trafficking crime due to his race. Christopher Skeete made the comments after the judge in a Longueuil ...

Aug 07, 2025

Climate change major driver of surging algae levels in Canada's lakes: study

TORONTO - A study of dozens of Canadian lakes suggests global warming is the major driver of surging algae levels, raising questions about the health of a sizable chunk of Earth's freshwater as temper...

Aug 07, 2025