Canada

Ontario awaits new COVID-19 modelling; Quebec reports exceptional rise in deaths

Ontario is awaiting the first COVID-19 projections since a stay-at-home order came into effect two weeks ago. Canada's most populous province reported 2,093 new infections today and 56 more deaths lin...

Jan 28, 2021

Supreme Court won't hear police oversight case; Black family alleged brutality

TORONTO - Canada's top court refused on Thursday to hear a case involving the limits of police oversight, prompting a renewed call for a misconduct hearing against a police officer a Black family accu...

Jan 28, 2021

Top court to hear case on sexual consent and use of protection

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case concerning the use of protection during sex and how that relates to consent and possible deception. The complainant in the British Columb...

Jan 28, 2021

Liberals' two-billion-trees promise to cost $2.78 billion more than planned, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says a pledge by the Trudeau Liberals to plant two billion trees could cost almost double what the government says. The tree-planting spree, spread over a deca...

Jan 28, 2021

Most minorities disproportionately dropped from civil service hiring process: audit

OTTAWA - A new report says Black Canadians and people from most other minority groups tend to disproportionately lose out on federal civil service jobs they apply for compared with other Canadians. Th...

Jan 28, 2021

Liberal government to voice support for Joe Biden cancelling U.S. 'global gag rule'

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - The federal government is expected to voice its support later today when President Joe Biden rescinds the United States' so-called global gag rule. The policy prohibits internat...

Jan 28, 2021

Military justice system at crossroads as court hears case on judges' independence

OTTAWA - Canada's military justice system will be on trial again Friday, when an appeal court weighs whether the handful of judges responsible for overseeing courts martial are truly independent. The ...

Jan 28, 2021

Conservatives say final months of 2020 a record for fundraising

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say they raised more than $7.6 million in the final three months of 2020. The figures come as all federals parties continue the work of prepping for a potential elec...

Jan 28, 2021

New maritime cybersecurity centre to fight pirates — and not the swashbuckling kind

MONTREAL - A new research centre created at Montreal's Polytechnique university will aim to protect ships from pirates - and they're not talking about Blackbeard or Captain Kidd. Canada's Maritime Cyb...

Jan 28, 2021

COVID-19 travel-related cases rise and U.S. terrorism alert: In The News for Jan. 28

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 Jan. 28 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jan 28, 2021