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Protest showdown and Russian war games: In The News for Feb. 11

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 Feb. 11 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Feb 11, 2022

Former privacy czar denounces lack of transparency over government's phone-data haul

OTTAWA - Ontario's former privacy commissioner says she is troubled "by the complete lack of transparency" from the Public Health Agency of Canada over its plans to collect millions of people's mobile...

Feb 11, 2022

Pressure builds to end trucker protests amid escalating economic fallout

OTTAWA - A sense of anxious anticipation is building amid intensifying demands for an end to the protests paralyzing downtown Ottawa as well as border crossings near Coutts, Alta., Emerson, Man., and ...

Feb 11, 2022

As border blockade persists, Canadians fear a pretext for more U.S. protectionism

WASHINGTON - Escalating blockades at the Canada-U.S. border are weakening one of the most fragile links in the vital North American supply chain - a link that has nothing to do with transport trucks, ...

Feb 11, 2022

Superior Court to consider border protest injunction today

WINDSOR, Ont. - An Ontario Superior Court justice is set to hear an application today for an injunction that would bar protesters from blocking the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont. T...

Feb 11, 2022

Montreal police officers handed 30-day suspensions for racial profiling in 2017

MONTREAL - A Black man who was racially profiled by Montreal police during a stop in 2017 says the 30-day suspensions recently imposed by the ethics commission on two officers is significant but not n...

Feb 10, 2022

Lack of powder silences Vancouver's historic Nine O'Clock Gun indefinitely

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver parks board says the city's historic Nine O'Clock Gun is being silenced by a lack of explosive powder that's needed to fire it. A statement from the board says the type of bl...

Feb 10, 2022

Canada, Britain discussing Russia sanctions if it invades Ukraine, says U.K. envoy

OTTAWA - Britain's envoy to Canada says the two countries are co-operating on a tough new set of sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine. Susannah Goshko, the British High Commissioner to Canad...

Feb 10, 2022

Defence Department failed to spend $1.2B in funding last year, most due to delays

OTTAWA - New figures show the Department of National Defence failed to spend more than $1.2 billion of its allotted budget in the last fiscal year, the majority due to delays in the purchase of new eq...

Feb 10, 2022

New Brunswick judge rejects 'rambling' anti-vax arguments from four public servants

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has rejected a bid by four public servants to overturn the province's recent decision to place them on unpaid leave for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. ...

Feb 10, 2022