Canada

Double murderer Ugo Fredette ordered to serve 25 years before chance of parole

SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A judge has ordered a Quebec man found guilty of murdering two people in 2017 to serve 25 years in prison before he's eligible for parole. Superior Court Justice Myriam Lachance d...

Jan 08, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ontario is reporting 4,249 new cases of COVID-19 today. The figure is a new record for daily infections, even factori...

Jan 08, 2021

Less than 24 hours after acknowledging election loss, Trump again bucks up supporters

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Less than 24 hours after acknowledging his election loss, U.S. President Donald Trump is again urging grassroots supporters to keep the faith. Trump, whose Twitter account was brief...

Jan 08, 2021

No unexpected side-effects from COVID-19 shots given in Canada so far: Health Canada

OTTAWA - Health Canada has no reports of unexpected side-effects from patients vaccinated against COVID-19 thus far. Health Canada's chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma is releasing the first of ...

Jan 08, 2021

PG jobless numbers buck the trend

PRINCE GEORGE - According to Statistics Canada, the economy lost 63,000 jobs in December in the first monthly decline since April, amid tightened public health restrictions to slow a resurgence in the...

Jan 08, 2021

Honouring Flight PS752 victims and officer dies after riots: In The News for Jan. 8

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. 8 ...What we are watching in Canada ...Co...

Jan 08, 2021

Calls for Ribbon Skirt Day after Saskatchewan Indigenous student wearing one shamed

REGINA - Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world. The brightly patterned h...

Jan 08, 2021

'That's the plane': How the federal government reacted to the downing of Flight PS752

OTTAWA - Shortly before 10 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2020, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne peeked at his mobile phone during a particularly intense teleconference. A BBC report of a plane c...

Jan 08, 2021

Canadians continue to mark one year of downing of Flight PS752 in Iran

Commemorations continue today for the victims of a passenger jet shot down by the Iranian military one year ago today. They began Thursday with a livestream at 9:42 p.m. ET, the exact moment Flight PS...

Jan 08, 2021

'Justice delayed is justice denied:' Canadians mark one year of Flight PS752 downing

EDMONTON - A series of commemorative events stretching over two days has begun to mark the one-year anniversary of the downing of Flight PS752. At 9:42 pm EST - the exact moment the Ukrainian Internat...

Jan 07, 2021