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More flight delays possible as storm approaches Toronto : In The News for Dec. 22 ...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 22 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Greg Fry Dec 22, 2022

Trudeau signals shift away from humanitarian aid toward financing infrastructure

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is signalling a shift away from humanitarian aid toward funding infrastructure projects in developing countries. "A lot of it is less around humanitarian develop...

Dec 22, 2022

Canadians gleaned naval intelligence from Russian defector, newly released files show

OTTAWA - The young Russian seaman who turned up exhausted and bleeding on the British Columbia shore struck a Canadian intelligence official as well mannered, sincere and athletic, built like Tarzan o...

Dec 22, 2022

Toronto and Vancouver airports warn of operational impacts today due to weather

TORONTO - A major winter storm bearing down on Toronto is adding to the calamity in Canadian airports already plagued by flight cancellations and delays set off early this week by heavy snow in Vancou...

Dec 22, 2022

Candlelight vigil underway for victims of Toronto-area fatal condo shooting

VAUGHAN, Ont. - Family, friends and shocked community members held a candlelight vigil Wednesday night to honour the five victims of the deadly condo shooting north of Toronto. Dozens of people holdin...

Dec 21, 2022

B.C. pauses electricity connections for crypto mining, citing 'massive' consumption

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is temporarily suspending requests for electricity connections from cryptocurrency mining operations, saying the decision is aimed at preserving the power su...

Dec 21, 2022

Judge grants bail to former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking secrets

OTTAWA - An RCMP intelligence official accused of violating Canada's secrecy law has been granted bail. The reasons for Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger's decision Wednesday in the case ...

Dec 21, 2022

No charges for officers who showed 'remarkable courage' in wild B.C. shootout: review

SAANICH, B.C. - British Columbia's Independent Investigations Office has cleared police officers who were involved in a wild shootout outside a Saanich, B.C., bank last summer that left twin brothers ...

Dec 21, 2022

Remembering the lives lost in the Vaughan condo shooting rampage

TORONTO - The five people killed after a 73-year-old man went on a shooting rampage at his Toronto-area condo are being remembered as kind community members who were loved by their families. Police ha...

Dec 21, 2022

Regulations for ban on foreign homebuyers announced, law coming into effect Jan. 1

OTTAWA - The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has announced regulations for the ban on foreign homebuyers, which comes into effect on Jan. 1. Starting in the new year, foreign commercial enterp...

Dec 21, 2022