Canada

Ethics committee rejects plan to relocate Quebec deer that were slated to be killed

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A plan to relocate deer from a Montreal-area park has fallen through after an ethics committee deemed the strategy unsafe. About half the population of white-tailed deer in Michel-Ch...

Feb 19, 2021

Extra weeks to be added to COVID-19 benefits for workers, parents, Trudeau says

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is adding 12 weeks of eligibility to two key benefits for unemployed workers and parents at home with children. The extra life for th...

Feb 19, 2021

Ottawa proposes to guarantee right to work in French in federally regulated companies

Ottawa says it intends to guarantee the right to work in French within all federally regulated private businesses with more than 50 employees in Quebec and in predominantly French-speaking communities...

Feb 19, 2021

COVID-19 variants could fuel surge of 20K daily cases if restrictions eased: feds

New federal forecasts project that COVID-19 variants could fuel a surge of 20,000 new cases per day by mid-March if public health restrictions are relaxed further. The Public Health Agency of Canada r...

Greg Fry Feb 19, 2021

Facebook's blocking news links in Australia 'irresponsible': Guilbeault

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says Facebook won't intimidate Canada out of pushing online giants to pay Canadian media companies for content. The company has blocked users in Australia ...

Feb 19, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine distribution; Australia's Facebook tussle: In The News for Feb. 19

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 Feb. 19 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Feb 19, 2021

Boris Johnson to press Trudeau, G7 leaders on wider COVID-19 vaccine distribution

OTTAWA - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host Justin Trudeau and their G7 counterparts for a virtual leaders' summit today aimed at bringing renewed momentum to COVID-19 vaccine distribution...

Feb 19, 2021

'I've been pushed to my absolute breaking point;' Canadian zoos struggle to survive

Last week, Paul Goulet's 10-year-old daughter quietly went to his wife with worry about her father. "It's like he's here, but he's not really here," she said. That nearly broke Goulet, the owner of Li...

Feb 19, 2021

Jury to begin deliberating in trial of man accused of killing woman in Edmonton hotel

EDMONTON - A judge has sequestered a jury but has instructed them to begin their deliberations Friday morning in the trial of a man accused of killing a woman whose bloody body was found in the bathtu...

Feb 18, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday Feb. 18, 2021. There are 837,497 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 837,497 confirmed cases (32,587 active, 78...

Feb 18, 2021