Canada

Nunavut senator quits Conservative caucus over support for Ottawa protests

Nunavut's senator says he has left the Conservative caucus over its support for protests in Ottawa against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Dennis Patterson told The Canadian Press...

Feb 04, 2022

N.S. woman says sex assault charge shouldn't stall probe of police conduct

HALIFAX - A Halifax woman who alleges investigators mishandled her sexual assault case says a charge laid this week shouldn't delay probes into police conduct. Carrie Low said in an interview Friday s...

Feb 04, 2022

Ottawa files court brief supporting Enbridge Inc. in Line 5 dispute with Michigan

WASHINGTON - The federal government is once again urging a Michigan judge to keep Line 5 operating while it works with the United States on negotiating an end to the impasse over the controversial cro...

Feb 04, 2022

How the truckers' convoy might show where the Conservative party is headed next

OTTAWA - A convoy of protesters against COVID-19 restrictions that has settled into downtown Ottawa has provided a test for the Conservative party as it rolls into a leadership race. "I spent the week...

Feb 04, 2022

Views from the front lines: The stories of those inside an Ontario hospital

SARNIA, Ont. - Behind the daily statistics of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are grieving families, exhausted nurses and frightened patients. Here's a look at some of their stories. SISTERS ...

Feb 04, 2022

'With a heavy heart,' N.B. judge temporarily suspends unvaccinated father's custody

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has temporarily suspended an unvaccinated father's in-person parenting time with his three children and ruled that their mother can have the children vaccinated des...

Feb 04, 2022

Feds to press ahead with anti-hate bill, including online speech: minister

OTTAWA - Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government is preparing to press ahead with a law to combat racial and religious hatred, including online hate. In an interview, the minister condemne...

Feb 04, 2022

Quebec City ready for demonstration against COVID-19 health orders, premier says

Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he's confident a trucker protest planned in Quebec City this weekend against COVID-19 public health orders won't be a repeat of what's happening in Ottawa. Legault ...

Feb 04, 2022

Quebec cuts funding to English college in favour of French schools ahead of election

MONTREAL - Squeezed for space, Montreal's Dawson College has for years been planning an expansion of its medical technology department that would include a clinic to serve the community and train its ...

Feb 04, 2022

Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest

Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...

Feb 04, 2022