Canada

B.C. to ease COVID-19 restrictions on masks, long-term care visits, vaccine cards

VICTORIA - British Columbia will lift its mask mandate, restore long-term care visits and drop capacity limits on faith gatherings starting Friday. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said case...

Mar 10, 2022

Supreme Court agrees to examine constitutionality of Quebec cannabis law

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will weigh the constitutionality of a Quebec law that forbids the growing of cannabis for personal use. Four years ago the federal government legalized recreationa...

Mar 10, 2022

Who's in, who's out and who else may join the Conservative party leadership race

OTTAWA - With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Those running ...

Mar 10, 2022

Health workers prescribe radical changes to health care to treat pandemic burnout

OTTAWA - Canada's ailing health systems need some drastic intervention from federal and provincial governments if there is any hope of reviving them post-pandemic, an emergency summit of nearly 40 hea...

Mar 10, 2022

Trudeau travels to Poland to see Ukrainian refugees, meet with officials

WARSAW, Poland - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will come face to face with Europe's refugee crisis Thursday after arriving in Poland, where most of the estimated two million Ukrainians that have fled ...

Mar 10, 2022

Former Quebec premier Jean Charest in Calgary to launch his Tory leadership campaign

OTTAWA - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest is to appear in Calgary today to formally launch his campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. Charest's bid to lead the Tories means he's r...

Mar 10, 2022

Families of Montreal brainwashing experiment victims still fighting for justice

MONTREAL - As a young adult, Susan Lapp always wondered why she had virtually no childhood memories of her mother. Katherine Lapp had died in a car accident in 1972 when Susan was 15, and her father a...

Mar 10, 2022

Trudeau heads to Warsaw, Charest to join leadership race: In The News for March 10

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 March 10 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Mar 10, 2022

Chief of defence staff and Belarus opposition leader attend Ottawa defence conference

OTTAWA - Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, will speak today at an international defence conference in Ottawa that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus's exiled opposition leader, will also add...

Mar 10, 2022

'Important to help each other': Canadians to welcome Ukrainian relatives, refugees

Olga Renneberg's mother arrived in Canada this week with nothing but a backpack with her essentials and the clothes she was wearing. "I suggested to her to pack the most important things - money, impo...

Mar 10, 2022