Category Archives: Canada
Privacy watchdog says RCMP's use of facial-recognition tool broke law
OTTAWA - The RCMP broke the law by using cutting-edge facial-recognition software to collect personal information, the federal privacy watchdog has found. In a report Thursday, privacy commissioner Da...
Jun 10, 2021
Quebec police say bodies found in Montreal-area home tied to murder-suicide
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say two bodies discovered in a home northeast of Montreal Wednesday morning involved a murder followed by a suicide. Lisette Corbeil, 56, and David Joly, 49, were f...
Jun 10, 2021
Liberal House leader accuses Conservatives of 'blocking' progress on key legislation
Government House leader Pablo Rodriguez says the Conservatives are blocking the passage of "progressive legislation" put forward by the minority Liberals before MPs wrap up for the summer. In a news c...
Jun 10, 2021
New York congressman says Biden, Trudeau to talk plan for Canada-U.S. border at G7
WASHINGTON - A New York congressman says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden will discuss plans to reopen the Canada-U.S. border when they meet on the margins of the G7 summit. Rep. ...
Jun 10, 2021
Canada's opinions of U.S. markedly higher with Biden in White House, poll suggests
WASHINGTON - Canadians have a far more positive view of the United States and its place in the world now that Joe Biden is president, a new poll suggests - the polar opposite of how they felt at the e...
Jun 10, 2021
Loosening COVID restrictions, Trudeau leaves for G7 summit: In The News for June 10
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 June 10 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jun 10, 2021
House of Commons ethics committee to issue report today on WE Charity affair
OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog may have let Prime Minister Justin Trudeau off the hook but that won't deter opposition parties from issuing a scathing report on the WE Charity affair. The House ...
Jun 10, 2021
Trudeau travels to G7, NATO as Canada grapples with Islamophobia, residential schools
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves Canada today for a G7 summit as the country is seized by tragedy and demands for justice for Indigenous Peoples and Muslims. Trudeau is to arrive in Cornw...
Jun 10, 2021
Alberta to lift some restrictions; Manitoba to release reopening plan
Two Prairie provinces hit hard by the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic are moving toward shedding more public health restrictions. Alberta is entering the second step of its reopening plan, which i...
Jun 10, 2021
Liberals to get help from NDP to get net-zero bill to Senate faster
OTTAWA - NDP environment critic Laurel Collins says her party will help the Liberals get the government's climate accountability bill to the Senate as soon as possible, even though the bill isn't as g...
Jun 09, 2021