MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault says governments will need to adapt programs as climate change increases the frequency of serious flooding. Legault says Quebec cannot waste taxpayer money on compensating people for flood damage, only to see the same properties flooded again two or three years later. That is why beginning this year, flooding […]
One of the Sri Lanka bombers is thought to have studied in the U.K. and Australia before carrying out the Easter Sunday attack, which killed at least 359 people. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the bombings, which were carried out by a group of suicide bombers with international connections, said Ruwan Wijewardene, […]
There are plenty of videos online of Americans struggling with world geography, but a U.S. television station was way off with its graphic for Banff National Park. Twitter user Don Kollins shared a clip from KTVU, a Fox-owned station servicing California’s Bay Area. The video shows Banff National Park incorrectly placed near Ottawa, which is […]
OTTAWA — Former U.S. president Barack Obama is set to visit the nation’s capital next month for a question-and-answer session. The event, hosted by the progressive think-tank Canada 2020, will be at Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre on May 31. Canada 2020 chairman Tom Pitfield says Obama is a “generation-defining political leader” and an inspiration to […]
New federal research suggests greenhouse gas emissions from Alberta’s oilsands may be significantly higher than industry reports. In a study published Tuesday, Environment Canada scientists say four major oilsands mines are releasing an average of about one-third more carbon dioxide per barrel of oil than they report — a crucial number used for everything from […]
MIRAMICHI, N.B. — Four teenagers from eastern New Brunswick died late Saturday when the vehicle they were in flipped after it veered off a wet, rural road and landed on its roof in a ditch filled with icy water. The Miramichi Police Force said heroic efforts were made to save the two males and two […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 200 people, the country’s health minister said Monday. The co-ordinated bombings that ripped through churches and luxury hotels […]
MONTREAL — Quebecers whose homes are repeatedly flooded may eventually be forced to move, Premier Francois Legault said Sunday as he toured an area enduring its second bout of spring flooding in three years. Legault visited Laval’s Ile Bigras, where soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces were busy stacking sandbags up a barrier along the […]
CHARLOTETOWN, P.E.I. — With only a few days before voters were to go to the polls in Prince Edward Island, the Green party suspended all campaigning Saturday after the sudden death of one of its candidates and his young son. The party confirmed Saturday that Josh Underhay and his son died in a canoeing accident […]
PARIS — More than $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral, but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being wildly off track. Macron said the renovations to restore iconic 19th century spire, […]