Quebec nurse had to clean up after husband's death in Montreal hospital
On a night she should have been mourning, a nurse from Quebec's Laurentians region says she was forced to clean up her husband after he died at a hospital in Montreal.
The deputy leader of Britain's main opposition party refused Sunday to apologize for calling the governing Conservatives "scum."
Labour Party lawmaker Angela Rayner called members of the government a "bunch of scum -- homophobic, racist, misogynistic" during a reception Saturday at the party's annual conference. The comment drew a reprimand from Labour leader Keir Starmer, who said he would not use such language and "will talk to Angela about it later on."
Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden said politicians should "make politics better, not drag it into the gutter. Let's see if we get an apology."
But Rayner defended the comments, saying she had used "street language" to convey frustration with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative government.
"Anyone who leaves children hungry during a pandemic and can give billions of pounds to their mates on WhatsApp, I think that was pretty scummy," she told Sky News, referring to controversies over support for poor families and the awarding of government contracts during the pandemic.
Rayner said she would only apologize if Johnson said `Sorry' for his past comments "that are homophobic, that are racist, that are misogynistic."
Johnson has a long record of offensive comments, including calling Papua New Guineans cannibals and comparing Muslim women who wear face-covering veils to "letter boxes."
The left-of-center Labour Party is holding its annual convention in the English seaside city of Brighton, seeking to chart a way back to power after more than a decade in opposition.
Starmer was elected party leader in April 2020, replacing the more left-wing Jeremy Corbyn, who had led Labour to two heavy election defeats. A lawyer from the party's center-left wing, Starmer has struggled to make an impact while the country's attention was consumed by the coronavirus pandemic.
He's now caught between two wings of the fractious party. Corbyn supporters want him to stick to his predecessor's socialist policies of nationalization and spending hikes. But many Labour lawmakers think the party must veer to the center to win, as it did under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who won three successive election victories.
Labour has been out of office since 2010, a decade that has brought the country three Conservative prime ministers -- David Cameron, Theresa May and Johnson.
Starmer's conference speech on Wednesday is regarded as a key moment for the leader to unite the party -- or face increasingly loud calls for his removal.
On a night she should have been mourning, a nurse from Quebec's Laurentians region says she was forced to clean up her husband after he died at a hospital in Montreal.
A North Bay, Ont., lawyer who abandoned 15 clients – many of them child protection cases – has lost his licence to practise law.
Members of the Bank of Canada's governing council were split on how long the central bank should wait before it starts cutting interest rates when they met earlier this month.
Brad Marchand scored twice, including the winner in the third period, and added an assist as the Boston Bruins downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 to take a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series Wednesday
Cuba's foreign affairs minister has apologized to a Montreal-area family after they were sent the wrong body following the death of a loved one.
Mounties in Nanaimo, B.C., say two late-night revellers are lucky their allegedly drunken antics weren't reported to police after security cameras captured the men trying to steal a heavy sign from a downtown business.
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Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was among the 1,700 delegates attending the two-day First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC) conference that concluded Tuesday in Toronto.
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The giant stone statues guarding the Lions Gate Bridge have been dressed in custom Vancouver Canucks jerseys as the NHL playoffs get underway.
A local Oilers fan is hoping to see his team cut through the postseason, so he can cut his hair.
A family from Laval, Que. is looking for answers... and their father's body. He died on vacation in Cuba and authorities sent someone else's body back to Canada.
A former educational assistant is calling attention to the rising violence in Alberta's classrooms.
The federal government says its plan to increase taxes on capital gains is aimed at wealthy Canadians to achieve “tax fairness.”
At 6'8" and 350 pounds, there is nothing typical about UBC offensive lineman Giovanni Manu, who was born in Tonga and went to high school in Pitt Meadows.
Kevin the cat has been reunited with his family after enduring a harrowing three-day ordeal while lost at Toronto Pearson International Airport earlier this week.