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New toll-free phone number created to direct Canadians to available poison centres

Health Canada is launching a new toll-free phone number for poison centres. Canadians can now call 1-844-POISON-X to access critical medical advice for poisonings.

Mar 21, 2023 1:23 AM Read more >

Nexus trusted-traveller program to fully resume by April 24 after yearlong standoff

MONTREAL — The Nexus trusted-traveller program will fully ramp back up within five weeks, allowing frequent border crossers to complete their applications and speed up their trips, the federal government said Monday.

Mar 20, 2023 6:54 PM Read more >

Two men who lost fingers crossing into Canada become Canadian citizens

WINNIPEG — Razak Iyal was given a warm embrace as he officially became a Canadian citizen, more than six years after nearly freezing to death walking across the Canada-United States border in Manitoba.

Mar 20, 2023 6:26 PM Read more >

B.C. parent launches class-action lawsuit against makers of Fortnite video game

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver parent has launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against the makers of Fortnite, saying the popular video game is designed to be "as addictive as possible" for children. In the lawsuit filed in B.C.

Mar 20, 2023 5:43 PM Read more >

Funeral for two officers shot and killed in Edmonton scheduled for next week

EDMONTON — Police say a regimental funeral has been scheduled for two Edmonton officers who were shot and killed in the line of duty last week.

Mar 20, 2023 5:05 PM Read more >

Guilbeault wants stronger links with Alberta on issues of oilsands tailings ponds

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has repeated his call for a stronger federal presence when it comes to environmental monitoring and communications in the oilsands, following a pair of wastewater releases from Imperial Oil's Kearl mine

Mar 20, 2023 4:28 PM Read more >

Liberals float possibility of making motion on foreign interference a confidence vote

OTTAWA — Liberal House leader Mark Holland isn't ruling out turning a Conservative motion on foreign interference into a confidence vote that could topple the government and would test the strength of the supply-and-confidence deal between the Libera

Mar 20, 2023 4:21 PM Read more >

Canada will take a 'hard long look' at UN call to speed emissions reduction: minister

OTTAWA — Canada will take a "hard long look" at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.

Mar 20, 2023 4:10 PM Read more >

CSIS, RCMP interviewed Mauritanian man at Guantanamo, feds say in denying wrongdoing

OTTAWA — The federal government acknowledges in a new court filing that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP interviewed a Mauritanian man at a Guantanamo Bay prison in 2003.

Mar 20, 2023 4:03 PM Read more >

'Not a matter of state secrets': Anand dismisses concerns over McKinsey contracts

OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand is dismissing opposition concerns about millions of dollars in contracts between her department and McKinsey & Company, saying the company's work was "not a matter of state secrets.

Mar 20, 2023 3:48 PM Read more >