By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
VANCOUVER — An independent B.C. legislator says a Canadian mother who spent three weeks detained at an immigration facility in Texas, along with her seven-year-old daughter, was released from detention on Thursday. Amelia Boultbee, an independent MLA who represents the electoral district of Penticton-Summerland, took to social media on Thursday to celebrate the news, saying ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
OTTAWA — The chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation is demanding an in person apology from Prime Minister Mark Carney after he said “I can outlast her” when a press conference he held in Toronto Monday was disrupted by mercury-poisoning protesters. Chrissy Isaacs, a Grassy Narrows First Nation woman suffering from mercury poisoning, was in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government unveiled another $51 million in aid and reconstruction funding for Ukraine on Friday, including humanitarian aid such as food and shelter and supports for recent veterans who fought against Russia’s invasion. The new measures come from a broader fund outlined in the 2025 budget, and $32 million of the ... Read More »
1 responseBy Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne is wrapping up a trip to Beijing where he says the governor of the Bank of Canada and other top Canadian financial officials met with Chinese counterparts. Champagne says the main focus of the trip was on the financial services sector, looking for opportunities for collaboration on pension ... Read More »
1 responseBy Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
A look at news events in March 2026: 1 – Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel, prompting Israeli airstrikes on Beirut for the first time in over a year. According to Iranian officials, the escalation follows sweeping U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 200 others. Iran retaliated with ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
NAIROBI — Police in Kenya say a Canadian man accused of wielding a machete and injuring almost half a dozen people at a mosque in Nairobi has pleaded not guilty. The East African country’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the 32-year-old appeared in court Thursday on nine terrorism charges, such as assault causing actual bodily ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
TORONTO — After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, nearly 300,000 Ukrainians were welcomed in communities across Canada as part of an emergency visa program that allowed those fleeing the war to temporarily work and study in the country. Many of those who have chosen to stay face an uncertain future as their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
MONTREAL — Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the Cross processions. In Montreal, several hundred people are expected to join Archbishop Christian Lépine in a march of “prayer, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
A leaked transcript of a meeting between Indigenous leaders and British Columbia Premier David Eby, about his plan to suspend the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA, shows them accusing him of “absolute betrayal” and colonialism. Speaker after speaker in the 17,000-word transcript of Thursday’s meeting, obtained by The Canadian ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
VANCOUVER — Harjot Rai had three minutes to make his PowerPoint pitch. The subject? His cringing friend, Matt White. And the audience was a far cry from executives in a corporate boardroom. Instead, it was 150 strangers at the Hollywood Theatre in Vancouver. “I present to you, Matt ‘White Chocolate.’ Why do I say chocolate? ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By Canadian Press on April 2nd, 2026
CAPE CANAVERAL — Canadian Jeremy Hansen is headed toward the moon as part of the Artemis II lunar mission after a nearly six-minute engine burn to bust out of orbit Thursday evening. Hansen, serving as mission specialist for Artemis II, is the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit. Also on board the Orion ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!