Canada

Trudeau listening to 'concerns' assault-style gun definition covers hunting rifles

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is listening to concerns that some of the firearms his government is looking to ban are in fact used more for hunting. The remarks at a press conference ...

Dec 05, 2022

Canada 'watching closely' as U.S. pressed to fix Inflation Reduction Act 'glitches'

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is "watching closely" as Europe presses for changes to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act. President Joe Biden last week acknowledged "glitches" in...

Dec 05, 2022

Ottawa calls for project proposals that help internationally trained health workers

HALIFAX - The federal government says that in order to address major labour shortages in health care, it will put $90 million toward projects that remove barriers preventing qualified new Canadians fr...

Dec 05, 2022

Polytechnique announces 2022 Order of the White Rose scholarship recipient

MONTREAL - A Quebec environmental engineering student intent on researching solutions to the global climate crisis is the latest recipient of a $30,000 prize established in honour of the 14 women kill...

Dec 05, 2022

Canada imposes more sanctions in Haiti, targeting country's wealthiest people

OTTAWA - Canada is imposing more sanctions on Haitian elites it accuses of empowering gangs in the Caribbean country. The new sanctions freeze Canadian assets held by three of the country's wealthiest...

Dec 05, 2022

In The News for Dec. 5: Can Ottawa be compelled to repatriate 19 Canadians from Syria

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 Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 ... What we are watching ...

Dec 05, 2022

Canada, China set to co-host global nature talks even as diplomatic tensions persist

OTTAWA - A major UN conference on biodiversity will get underway in Montreal Tuesday with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world's land and oceans before t...

Dec 05, 2022

Federal Court set to hear case about repatriating Canadians detained in Syria

OTTAWA - A Federal Court is slated to begin two days of hearings today into the Liberal government's refusal to repatriate 19 Canadian women and children who are being held in northeastern Syria. Fami...

Dec 05, 2022

Veterans' cases raise fresh concerns about expanding assisted dying law

OTTAWA - Revelations that some Canadian veterans have been offered assisted deaths while seeking help from the federal government are adding to concerns about Ottawa's plans to expand such procedures ...

Dec 04, 2022

'Paris moment:' COP15 conference in Montreal seeks hard targets on biodiversity

If global biodiversity - the subject of a huge international meeting in Montreal this week - is too much of a mouthful, try thinking instead about the white-throated sparrow. Their cheerful "Dear Swee...

Dec 04, 2022