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Quick Quotes: Canada reacts to report that says use of Emergencies Act was justified

OTTAWA - Nearly one year after the "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators blocked traffic at Canadian border crossings and occupied the nation's capital, an independent commission released a report saying the...

Feb 17, 2023

Justice Rouleau calls for more time, transparency in future Emergencies Act inquiries

OTTAWA - The Public Order Emergency Commission has made 56 recommendations after investigating the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to quell protests at border crossings and in downtown...

Feb 17, 2023

Trudeau says Canadians decided 2021 election outcome in spite of Chinese meddling

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is playing down a report that China tried to sway the last federal election, saying Canadian voters alone decided the outcome. The Toronto-based Globe and Mail n...

Feb 17, 2023

In his own words: Justice Paul Rouleau's conclusion about the 'Freedom Convoy'

OTTAWA - Justice Paul Rouleau, the head of the public inquiry that examined the federal Liberal government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in February 2022, concluded in his final report the ...

Feb 17, 2023

International organization says Indigenous families will lead unmarked graves report

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The head of an international organization brought in by the federal government to provide communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former re...

Feb 17, 2023

Liberals' decision to invoke Emergencies Act justified, commission says

The federal government met the very high threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history during the so-called Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa last year, the public ...

Feb 17, 2023

Rouleau report addresses six questions raised during Emergencies Act hearings

OTTAWA - Throughout seven weeks of public hearings in Ottawa, the Public Order Emergency Commission heard from more than 100 witnesses and released thousands of pages of documents. This evidence raise...

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Judge orders psychiatric evaluation for driver in Quebec daycare bus crash

LAVAL, Que. - The man charged with killing two young children when the bus he was driving slammed into a daycare in Laval has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Pierre Ny St-...

Feb 17, 2023

Watchdog report blasts RCMP failures investigating missing Saskatchewan woman

SASKATOON - Amanda Michayluk's final moments were spent walking alone in the cold and snow through a Saskatchewan field as her family anxiously waited for an RCMP search and rescue team that would nev...

Feb 17, 2023

Energy transition jobs plan aims to sustain and create jobs, not kill them: feds

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's long-promised plan to transition Canada's labour force to respond to climate change says a clean energy economy will not prompt massive unemployment in the country's ...

Feb 17, 2023