Canadian News

Largest recorded Alberta earthquake not natural, from oilsands wastewater: study

Peace River area rocked by series of quakes in November culminating with one at 5.6 magnitude

Mar 23, 2023 7:50 AM Read more >

Pope Francis’s tour came with a minimum $55-million price tag for Ottawa

‘Think of all the money that could have gone to survivors’

Mar 23, 2023 7:30 AM Read more >

What to know about new research on coffee and heart risks

American university study offers a rare controlled evaluation of caffeine’s effect

Mar 23, 2023 6:30 AM Read more >

Biden visit puts Canadian defence spending, Norad modernization back under microscope

Canada not meeting NATO standard for defence spending

Mar 23, 2023 6:30 AM Read more >

Police-reported hate crimes rise again, as pandemic worsens discrimination: StatCan

Reports up by 27 per cent in 2021, after a 35 per cent increase in 2020

Mar 22, 2023 3:30 PM Read more >

Transportation Safety Board report on fatal Atlantic sinking cites lax federal rules

Stability testing may have helped prevent 2020 sinking of a Nova Scotia scallop dragger

Mar 22, 2023 3:30 PM Read more >

Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart wins $100,000 costs in NPA defamation case

Stewart was sued after he issued a news release in 2021 denouncing ‘hate and extremism’ in the NPA

Mar 22, 2023 3:30 PM Read more >

Ottawa to spend $1.5 billion to improve access to drugs for rare diseases

Duclos wants to increase coverage for existing drugs, create list of new and emerging treatments

Mar 22, 2023 3:30 PM Read more >

First Nation chooses affluent Vancouver launch pad to reform Indigenous child welfare

Campaign aims at doing what’s best for children on the ‘front lines of colonization’

Mar 22, 2023 9:30 AM Read more >

A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water: UN

Estimated cost of meeting UN water and sanitation goals could reach $1 trillion a year

Mar 22, 2023 9:15 AM Read more >