Canada

"Flag war" with Denmark over tiny Arctic island set to end peacefully with deal

OTTAWA - A deal has been reached settling a dispute with Denmark over a 1.3-square-kilometre island in the Arctic and is expected to be signed today, according to a government minister. Dan Vandal, Mi...

Jun 14, 2022

Amazon accused of using posters, text messages to interfere with Montreal union drive

MONTREAL - A major labour union in Quebec is calling recent action by the management of an Amazon warehouse in Montreal "tactics of intimidation and harassment" that interfere with a recently launched...

Jun 14, 2022

Medicine professor says no need to panic over COVID-19 reinfection

An expert says Canadians don't need to panic about COVID-19 reinfections even as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tested positive a second time for the virus. Stephen Hoption Cann, a clinical profess...

Jun 13, 2022

Federal government now posting passport wait times online as long lineups continue

OTTAWA - Passport offices are still dealing with a surge of applications, the minister responsible says, and wait times are "far from acceptable." Karina Gould says those long wait times are her top p...

Jun 13, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Watchdog launches probe into actions of police in 8 B.C. departments

VICTORIA - British Columbia's police complaint commissioner has set off an investigation into the conduct of 19 officers from eight separate police departments. A statement from the commissioner says ...

Jun 13, 2022

Two Sikh rally organizers say they were wrongly arrested amid Parliament bomb scare

OTTAWA - Two organizers of a Sikh event set to take place on Parliament Hill Saturday say they were arrested and released after being wrongfully identified in connection to a bomb threat in the area. ...

Jun 13, 2022

Watchdog nominee Philippe Dufresne stresses privacy as a 'fundamental right'

OTTAWA - Philippe Dufresne, the government's nominee to be the next federal privacy watchdog, says coming legislation must recognize privacy as a "fundamental right." Dufresene told a House of Commons...

Jun 13, 2022

Large part of southern B.C. under flood warnings, watches as storm bears down

VANCOUVER - A flood warning has been issued for part of a southeastern British Columbia river and many other waterways in the province are under flood watches as heavy rain has the potential to push s...

Jun 13, 2022

Canada's COVID Alert app will be discontinued as PCR testing becomes rare

OTTAWA - Canada's COVID Alert app will be discontinued in the coming days, a federal government source tells The Canadian Press. The app was launched in the summer of 2020 as the pandemic began and bi...

Jun 13, 2022

Hidden racial slur sparks recall of hundreds of yearbooks from Quebec high school

MONTREAL - A suburban Montreal high school has recalled more than 900 yearbooks after a racial slur was found hidden in a student biography. The Lester B. Pearson School Board says that for one gradua...

Jun 13, 2022