Canada

Legislation coming this year to force Google, Facebook to pay for news content

OTTAWA - Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is promising legislation this year to ensure tech giants like Google and Facebook pay for the news content they disseminate on their platforms. Th...

Feb 04, 2021

Vancouver police cite delivery of 100 cheeseburgers in search warrant application

VANCOUVER - An application for search warrants to enter a Vancouver penthouse that police have described as a makeshift nightclub amid COVID-19 restrictions says officers noticed a delivery of 100 che...

Feb 04, 2021

COVID-19 ban on cruise ships in Canadian waters extended to 2022

The federal government says a ban on cruise ships in Canadian waters will stay in place for one more year. The ban until Feb. 28, 2022 applies to cruise ships carrying more than 100 people as well as ...

Feb 04, 2021

After Canada's Proud Boys decision, U.S. lawmakers confront white supremacy threat

WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers are coming to grips with what experts warned Thursday is a dangerous and escalating threat of homegrown violent extremism following last month's riots on Capitol Hill. Memb...

Feb 04, 2021

COVID-19 vaccinations for RCMP officers should be a priority, union tells officials

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line RCMP officers is asking federal and provincial officials to consider Mounties for priority access to COVID-19 vaccination.The National Police Federation says...

Feb 04, 2021

B.C. strengthens mask rules for middle, high school students and K-12 staff

VICTORIA - British Columbia is expanding mask requirements in its school system. Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside says students in middle and secondary school and staff for kindergarten through G...

Feb 04, 2021

Raises from pay equity law to land three years after rules take effect, watchdog says

OTTAWA - Canada's pay equity commissioner says the first raises under soon-to-be-enacted legislation should happen by 2024. Commissioner Karen Jensen also says that it may take several more years befo...

Feb 04, 2021

Doctors fear an impending wave of cancer patients after COVID-19 delays

MONTREAL, Italy - While the prospect of mass vaccination has raised hopes of the COVID-19 crisis soon waning, oncologists and cancer researchers say one of its grim legacies may be a lingering increas...

Feb 04, 2021

Woman found dead in Edmonton hotel room was too drunk to consent to sex: lawyers

EDMONTON - A Crown prosecutor is arguing that a man accused of killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room did not ask for her consent to perform a sexual act that caused her fatal wound. Bradley Barton...

Feb 04, 2021

Remote care saving grace for many COVID patients, hospitals; oxygen monitoring vital

TORONTO - One saving grace amid the devastation of COVID-19 has been that the vast majority of those infected are able to recover at home, allowing hospitals to cope with what would otherwise have bee...

Feb 04, 2021