Canada

Settlement reached on residential school 'day scholars' class-action lawsuit

OTTAWA - A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against the federal government involving hundreds of First Nations people left out of residential-school compensation. The lawsuit was ...

Jun 09, 2021

Citing role in 'genocidal policies,' history professors reach out to First Nations

FREDERICTON - History professors at the University of New Brunswick are offering their research skills to Indigenous people looking for information about ancestors or seeking land claims, saying First...

Jun 09, 2021

Vaccine lottery: Manitobans eligible for cash, scholarships if they get a COVID shot

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is launching a lottery that will award nearly $2 million in cash and scholarships to people who get a COVID-19 vaccine. Premier Brian Pallister says anyone aged 12 a...

Jun 09, 2021

Canada, Alberta sign deal for $1.3B hydrogen plant in Edmonton

EDMONTON - The federal and Alberta governments are signing an agreement that could lead to a plant to produce hydrogen built near Edmonton. The governments say they're working with Air Products Canada...

Jun 09, 2021

COVID, commerce, climate, conflict: PM Trudeau enters G7 summit like no other

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will on Friday begin to meet with counterparts from the world's most powerful democracies at the G7 Leaders' Summit to discuss overcoming COVID-19 and its econom...

Jun 09, 2021

NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide

OTTAWA - New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide. In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow, NDP MP Leah Gazan...

Jun 09, 2021

Virtual parade plan announced, marshal named for scaled-down Calgary Stampede

CALGARY - There will be a parade to launch the upcoming Calgary Stampede, but it won't include hundreds of thousands of fans lining the city's downtown streets. Stampede officials announced Wednesday ...

Jun 09, 2021

Feds to lift 14-day quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers

OTTAWA - The federal government is set to announce today that fully vaccinated Canadian travellers will no longer need to spend 14 days in quarantine upon arriving home. A federal source familiar with...

Greg Fry Jun 09, 2021

Mourning London attack victims, "Canada's Got Talent" returns: In The News for June 9

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

Jun 09, 2021

Federal targeting of Muslim charities amounts to prejudice: civil liberties coalition

OTTAWA - A national civil liberties coalition says a secretive division of the Canada Revenue Agency is unfairly targeting Muslim charities for audits based on flimsy reasoning, amounting to discrimin...

Jun 09, 2021