Canada

Canada's extends anti-Islamic State mission in Iraq to 2023

OTTAWA - Canada is extending its military mission in Iraq and the Middle East. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the 12-month extension today, just hours before the current mandate was set to exp...

Mar 31, 2022

RCMP officer hesitated after speeding by N.S. mass shooter on second day of killings

HALIFAX - In the seconds after a Mountie sped past a gunman wanted for a murderous rampage in Nova Scotia two years ago, the officer hesitated about whether to give chase, and by the time he did the s...

Mar 31, 2022

NACI guidance on fourth dose of COVID vaccine expected soon: PHAC

TORONTO - The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is expected to release guidance on fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccine in early April as public health indicators tick up across Canada. That's s...

Greg Fry Mar 31, 2022

Northwest Territories to drop COVID-19 mask mandate, isolation measures Friday

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories says it will end all of its COVID-19 public health measures Friday, including mandatory isolation for people who test positive for the virus. In a news release,...

Mar 31, 2022

Federal justice minister concerned by secret trial held in Quebec and kept off docket

MONTREAL - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says reports that a Quebec criminal trial involving a police informant was held entirely in secret and kept off the official court docket are deeply t...

Mar 31, 2022

Federal ministers cite need for international war crimes probe of Russia

OTTAWA - Canada's international development minister says Russia's blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes i...

Mar 31, 2022

Conservative party says membership data is safe after reports of alleged hack

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada says it's confident data about its members has not been compromised following reports of an alleged breach. A spokeswoman for Jean Charest's leadership campai...

Mar 31, 2022

Canada edges farther away from NATO spending target in latest estimate

OTTAWA - New NATO figures suggest Canada is even farther from meeting the military alliance's spending target than previously believed. NATO estimated last June that Canada would spend about 1.39 per ...

Mar 31, 2022

U.S. government reviewing deaths of two belugas moved to Connecticut from Marineland

The U.S. government is reviewing the deaths of two beluga whales that were moved from Marineland in Canada to an American aquarium last year. Havana, a young female beluga, died last month at Mystic A...

Mar 31, 2022

Afghan interpreters demand Ottawa keep promise to help endangered family members

OTTAWA - Dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked with Canada's military gathered on Parliament Hill to demand the federal government help their family members. The government introduced a special imm...

Mar 31, 2022