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Bodies of pilots who died in collision at N.Y. airport are repatriated to Canada
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
MONTREAL — The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have returned to Canada. Pilots carried the casket of Jazz Aviation first officer Mackenzie Gunther off a plane at the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday afternoon. Capt. Antoine Forest’s body was then ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Floor-crossing MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
OTTAWA — An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, asking an expert during a parliamentary committee today whether she’d seen forced labour with her own eyes. Michael Ma crossed the floor to the Liberals in December and joined Prime ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous services minister questioned about fire that killed toddler
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs from northern Ontario demanded answers Thursday from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty after they linked the death of a three-year-old boy to a lack of federal funding for fire services in their communities. On Monday, a house fire in a northwestern Ontario community took the life of Chief Donny Morris’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lawsuits dropped after Gilbert Rozon, Julie Snyder, Pénélope McQuade reach deal
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
MONTREAL — Legal proceedings have been settled out of court between Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon and Quebec media personalities Pénélope McQuade and Julie Snyder. In 2020, Rozon filed a $450,000 defamation lawsuit against the two women over remarks they had made during a television show hosted by Snyder. Rozon alleged that false statements ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bodies of pilots who died in collision at N.Y. airport to be repatriated to Canada
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
MONTREAL — The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday are being repatriated to Canada. The Air Line Pilots Association says the body of first officer Mackenzie Gunther was scheduled to arrive at 3:43 p.m. at the Ottawa International Airport. Capt. Antoine ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Global Fund disease czar warns of limits to shifting foreign aid to private capital
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
OTTAWA — The head of the world’s major funding mechanism for tackling infectious diseases says the Carney government’s focus on leveraging private capital for aid will have only a limited impact on the world’s most vulnerable people. Peter Sands, executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, also says Canada is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Astronaut and UBC alumna answers questions from space
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
VANCOUVER — University of British Columbia alumna Jessica Meir has given current students a look at her office — as an astronaut in the orbiting International Space Station. Meir is the commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the station, where she’s living for eight months. U.S.-based Meir, who studied zoology at UBC from 2009 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney takes victory lap after meeting NATO target: ‘We’re just getting started’
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
OTTAWA — For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence — a key NATO alliance benchmark Ottawa previously failed to meet. NATO’s annual report, released Thursday, contains estimates stating Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government met the key spending benchmark ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court wraps up hearings over Quebec secularism law
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is beginning its deliberations about a Quebec secularism law after hearings on the controversial legislation wrapped up. The 2019 Quebec law bans some public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job. When it adopted the law, Quebec used a provision of the Constitution that allows governments ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
VICTORIA — British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats, prompting his removal from the party caucus. The BC Prosecution Service says the Richmond Centre legislator was charged under the name Hon-Sang Chan after a special prosecutor was appointed to look into the case last June. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. Conservatives say MLA Hon Chan facing ‘serious criminal charges’
By Canadian Press on March 26th, 2026
VICTORIA — The Conservative Party of British Columbia says Richmond Centre MLA Hon Chan is facing “serious criminal charges” and has been removed from the party caucus. Interim leader Trevor Halford says in a statement that “any allegations of domestic violence are taken seriously” by the party. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
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