Canada

Supreme Court dismisses appeal to stop class action against RCMP for bullying

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from the federal government trying to stop a class action against the RCMP over bullying and harassment. Last fall the Federal Court of App...

Mar 17, 2022

WHO may reject Canadian-made Medicago COVID-19 vaccine because of ties to big tobacco

OTTAWA - The World Health Organization says it is expecting to reject the COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Canada's Medicago because of the company's ties to big tobacco. The Medicago Covifenz vaccine ...

Mar 17, 2022

Plan for associate physicians in British Columbia is stalled by pandemic

VANCOUVER - B.C.'s remedy for bringing more foreign-trained doctors into the medical profession has been delayed, sidelining potential candidates and prolonging pressure on the province's health syste...

Mar 17, 2022

Under headline jobs figures, report finds pockets of weakness in rebound for women

OTTAWA - A new report says women's historically high numbers in the country's labour force remain below where they might have been if COVID-19 had never occurred. The report from the Labour Market Inf...

Mar 17, 2022

More Line 5 disputes, GG requested briefing on Indian Act : In The News for March 17

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 17 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Mar 17, 2022

Michigan wants 'to have its cake and eat it too' on Line 5: chambers of commerce

WASHINGTON - Business leaders from the United States and Canada are again wading into the fray over Line 5, accusing the state of Michigan of dragging its heels to ensure the controversial cross-borde...

Mar 17, 2022

Canada's first Indigenous Governor General requested briefing on the Indian Act

OTTAWA - Canada's first Indigenous Governor General, within months of being appointed to the role, requested government officials outline what departments were doing to allow First Nations to move awa...

Mar 17, 2022

Toronto volunteers collect, send tactical supplies to Ukraine amid war with Russia

TORONTO - Julia Zaritsky has spent most of her days over the last two weeks figuring out how to buy and ship tactical supplies to Ukrainians fighting the Russian invasion of their country. It's a comp...

Mar 17, 2022

Canadian Pacific Railway issues 72-hour lockout notice on Teamsters Canada

CALGARY - Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to th...

Mar 16, 2022

Two Ontario students survive Texas crash that killed nine

HOBBS, N.M. - Nine people have died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authori...

Mar 16, 2022