Canada

Crowd gathers north of Toronto to cheer on trucker convoy heading to Ottawa

TORONTO - A large crowd gathered outside a mall north of Toronto on Thursday as a group of local truckers prepared to join a convoy to Ottawa in protest of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine ma...

Jan 27, 2022

Bodies of family from India trying to cross into U.S. by foot identified

Officials in Ottawa say they have confirmed the identities of four Indian nationals whose bodies were found frozen in Manitoba near the Canada-U. S. border last week. The High Commission of India has ...

Jan 27, 2022

Four deaths from same family in Richmond, B.C., was an isolated incident, police say

RICHMOND, B.C. - Police say two men and two women who were found dead at a home after a shooting in Richmond, B.C., were from the same family. Sgt. David Lee of the Integrated Homicide Investigation T...

Jan 27, 2022

Biden gave Trudeau same aviator sunglasses as official summit gift, as Putin

OTTAWA - President Joe Biden gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the same pair of aviator sunglasses last year he presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin a few months earlier at a summit in Genev...

Jan 27, 2022

Canada can do more to help Ukraine besides sending weapons: experts

OTTAWA - The debate around sending weapons to Ukraine is being panned as a "red herring" by experts who say Canada can better support the country in other ways. The comments come after Prime Minister ...

Jan 27, 2022

Parliamentary security, police preparing as truckers' protest convoy nears Ottawa

OTTAWA - Security forces on Parliament Hill are preparing for up to 10,000 protesters to set up camp in downtown Ottawa this weekend to push back against lockdowns and vaccination mandates. A memo the...

Jan 27, 2022

Tories' election review calls for more diverse candidates, greater outreach: sources

OTTAWA - A report into how the Conservatives fared in last year's election calls on the party to recruit more diverse candidates and for better outreach into different cultural communities, where the ...

Jan 27, 2022

Draft long-term care standards could have prevented pandemic deaths: committee chair

OTTAWA - An organization that develops health-care standards has released a draft of new long-term care guidance that the authors hope will fundamentally change the way Canadian care homes are accredi...

Jan 27, 2022

CRA to send out new round of letters checking eligibility from CERB recipients

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is sending out a new round of letters to pandemic aid recipients to verify they were eligible for the help, and warning of potential need for repayments. It's the se...

Jan 27, 2022

'It's about money, not people:' Immigration experts describe human smuggling business

Police in a western state of India have begun delving deeper into the deaths of four Indian migrants whose bodies were found in Manitoba just short of the Canada-U. S. border. Ashish Bhatia, director ...

Jan 27, 2022