Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The auditor general has found Canada failed to adequately enforce border measures designed to keep international travellers from importing cases of COVID-19 into the country, just as the gove...

HALIFAX - There are now 59 COVID-19 infections linked to recent graduation ceremonies at St. Francis Xavier University in northern Nova Scotia. Health officials reported an additional 38 cases today a...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded its highest-ever monthly number of suspected overdose deaths from toxic illicit drugs. A statement from the coroners' service says there were 201 fatalities in...

MONTREAL - A suspect is in custody after a stabbing at a Montreal high school that sent a teacher to hospital with mild injuries. Montreal police say the incident occurred at about 10 a.m. today at Jo...

MONTREAL - An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province's law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols. Pa...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog is warning Canadians about the growing threat of surveillance capitalism - the use of personal information by large corporations. In his annual report tabled toda...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government's plan to extend its wage subsidy will push the overall price for the program to almost $106.7 billion. The budget officer's repor...

OTTAWA - Twenty-one organizations across the country have released Canada's first civil society-led policy framework for drug decriminalization and redistributing resources from police to services tha...

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 Dec. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

OTTAWA - As a transplanted British Columbian, Jesse Mason views the extreme and shifting weather patterns unfolding in his native province with a high level of concern. First, there was the heat dome ...