Canadian on-air weather personalities shifting tone amid worsening climate change

Forecaster Warren Dean recalls feeling helpless as a deadly heat dome hovered over British Columbia last summer. The CTV News weather anchor for Vancouver Island says...

Canadian peacekeepers safe, sheltering as deadly anti-UN protests rock the DRC

OTTAWA — The federal government says all Canadian peacekeepers are safe and accounted for following a second day of deadly anti-United Nations protests in the Democratic...

Sport Canada knew of Team Canada sexual assault allegations in 2018

OTTAWA — Michel Ruest, a senior director of Sport Canada, says the federal organization was made aware of an alleged sexual assault involving members of Team...

Chronic RCMP officer shortages in rural areas evident in N.S. mass shooting: Mountie

HALIFAX — A senior Mountie who investigated the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia RCMP told a public inquiry on Tuesday that the federal police force...

What Pope Francis left out in his words of apology to residential school survivors

OTTAWA — Pope Francis delivered a historic apology on Monday to survivors of Canada’s residential schools. The majority of those government-funded institutions, in which thousands of...

Activists call for more HIV funding from Ottawa as AIDS conference opens in Montreal

Privacy committee to conduct study of spyware tools used by RCMP

OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee will hold hearings on the RCMP’s use of spyware and potential risks to the privacy rights of Canadians. The House of...

‘Big Brother vibes’: Spy agency ditches job ads after mixed reviews from focus groups

OTTAWA — Canada’s cyberspy agency has changed course on proposed recruitment efforts after focus groups found job ads had too much of a “Big Brother vibe.”...

Ex-Liberal MP accused of using office for personal gain sees trial extended to fall

OTTAWA — The trial for former Liberal MP Raj Grewal, who stands accused of using his political office for personal financial gain, will extend until at...

After apology in Alberta, First Nations want Pope to say sorry on Quebec soil

MONTREAL — As Pope Francis’s visit to Canada shifts east, Indigenous leaders say their communities deserve to hear him on Quebec soil beg forgiveness for the...