OTTAWA, Canada -- A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Canada on Saturday, the second such incident in North American skies since the dramatic downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a joint US-Canadian military operation led to...
A makeshift memorial decorates a fence near a day care center (rear) on February 9, 2023, in Laval, Canada. Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP LAVAL, Canada -- A driver charged with first-degree murder after ramming his bus into a day care center in Canada and killing two children was ordered Thursday to...
NEW YORK, United States -- The northeastern United States and Canada steeled themselves Friday for an "epic" Arctic blast that could see some areas record their lowest ever wind chill temperatures. America's National Weather Service (NWS) warned that parts of Maine might see wind chills of minus 60...
OTTAWA, Canada -- Canada on Thursday moved to delay a change to its euthanasia laws that would make mentally ill patients eligible, saying more time was needed to set up safeguards. Canada approved doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally ill in 2016 in response to the top court striking down a...
OTTAWA, Canada -- Five Canadian police officers have been charged with offenses related to an Indigenous man's death, which occurred shortly after his arrest in 2017. Prosecutors in British Columbia province announced late Wednesday manslaughter charges against two Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
OTTAWA, Canada -- Canada's parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China but are now facing pressure to return. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in...
Canada is seeing strengthened ties with the Philippines in the fields of defense, trade and investment, environment, climate change and human rights over the coming years. David Bruce Hartman, the new ambassador of Canada to the Philippines who replaced James Peter MacArthur, made the pronouncement...
OTTAWA, Canada - A Canadian province on Tuesday decriminalized the possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and other hard drugs -- in a radical policy shift to address an opioid overdose crisis that has killed thousands. Adults found with up to 2.5 grams of these drugs, rather than...
MONTREAL, Canada -- Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country. The government of Canada appoints journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby as its first special representative...
Canada and the Netherlands, two countries pushing for media freedom worldwide, heaved a sign of relief after the Philippine Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) acquitted embattled journalist Maria Ressa and her company, Rappler, of tax evasion charges. In a statement, the two countries, which co-chair the...
MONTREAL, Canada -- An Indigenous group in western Canada said Thursday it had discovered evidence of possible unmarked graves and a fragment of a child's jawbone on the grounds of a former residential school. In Lebret, Saskatchewan, ground-penetrating radar has uncovered nearly "2,000 areas of...
After the outage that delayed over 9,500 U.S. flights, Philippine Airlines (PAL) is proceeding with all its flights to and from the United States, the flag carrier stated in its late evening (10:27 pm) advisory on Wednesday, January 11. At the time, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
