VANCOUVER — More than 35.5 million tonnes of food is thrown out each year in Canada, but one group in Vancouver is hoping to divert some of that to help people who are food insecure. The Food Stash Foundation is opening the doors to the Rescued Foo...

MONTREAL — Quebec's proposed overhaul of its French-language charter is under the microscope at legislative hearings, with participants this week raising concerns about the bill's effect on English speakers and the independence of the judiciary.Tab...

WINNIPEG — An extradition hearing for a former Canadian fashion mogul facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States is to begin today. Peter Nygard, who is 80, was arrested in Winnipeg last year under the Extradition Act and ...

British Columbia is subsidizing oil and gas well drilling on the same land it has promised to protect for caribou, new research has found."The B.C. government has made a lot of commitments to caribou habitat restoration and it's not really working," ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a long night of frantic negotiations, Democrats were unable late Thursday to reach an immediate deal to salvage President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion government overhaul, forcing leaders to call off promised votes on a rel...

B.C. Hydro crews worked all day Thursday to repair power lines after falling trees knocked out power to thousands of customers in the central and north Island and Gulf Islands. Power was restored to more than 430 customers in the area south of Ce...

A third school district in British Columbia has announced its own policy extending a provincial mask mandate for kindergarten-to-Grade 3 students starting Monday. The Burnaby School District followed the lead of the Vancouver and Surrey districts...

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Investigators searching for an Iowa boy who vanished in May days before his 11th birthday said Thursday they have found human remains matching his description in a nearby cornfield.The remains were discovered by a farmer work...

RCMP say they are negotiating with demonstrators who have taken control of a Coastal GasLink construction site in northern B.C. as tensions surrounding the natural gas project rise again.Protests last year against the pipeline on Wet'suwet'en First N...

Prime Minster Justin Trudeau spent Canada’s first National Truth and ­Reconciliation Day in Tofino, on vacation with his family. The PMO abruptly changed Trudeau’s official itinerary early Thursday afternoon, saying Canada’s leader will be...

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under fire Thursday for spending part of Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation flying to Tofino, B.C., to join his family.But his office denied Trudeau was taking a vacation on a day me...

As a child forced to attend residential school, Eddy Charlie saw children receive beatings for speaking their language and calling their brothers and sisters by their Indigenous names. He watched kids go hungry, because they were fed only once or twi...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The big field of Republicans running for governor of Pennsylvania is increasingly unsettled, with more candidates joining it, few leading party figures picking favorites and persistent talk that one of the most senior state R...

The Spirit of Vancouver Island is out of service Thursday due to a mechanical problem, disrupting sailing schedules between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. While the Spirit of British Columbia, Coastal Celebration, and Queen of New Westm...

OTTAWA — Residential school survivor Doug George-Kanentiio appealed to the federal government Thursday to help create a permanent museum in Canada to preserve the collective memories of Indigenous Peoples."We the survivors will be there to guide pe...

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says help is on the way from the Canadian Armed Forces and elsewhere to battle a COVID-19 wave that continues to overwhelm hospitals.Kenney said the province is finalizing a deal to provide eight to 10 intens...

Power was knocked out for hours at dozens of homes in the area of Cook and Quadra in Saanich after a car rolled down a hill on Clovelly Terrace about 5 Thursday morning and sheared off a hydro pole.The driver, who was not in the car, tried to stop th...

Quebec Premier François Legault says the province cannot afford to make the national day honouring victims and survivors of residential schools a statutory holiday.Legault told reporters today the province needs more "productivity," in response to q...

OTTAWA — An expert on sexual misconduct says it would be dishonest for the Department of National Defence to promote the military as a positive place for women to work in a coming campaign after widespread reports to the contrary. The Canadian Arme...

SASKATOON — The Métis National Council has elected its first new leader in nearly two decades."Today we begin a new era — one of accountability, transparency and governing on behalf of the entire Métis Nation," Cassidy Caron said Thursday after...