Canada

COVID-19 has made its way to second B.C. mink farm, no workers sick

VICTORIA - Minks on a second farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. The Ministry of Agriculture says three minks that died on the f...

Dec 24, 2020

Quebec police watchdog completes probe into RCMP-involved killing of Rodney Levi

FREDERICTON - Quebec's police watchdog says it has completed its investigation into the RCMP-involved killing of Rodney Levi, a 48-year-old man from the Metepenagiag First Nation in New Brunswick. The...

Dec 24, 2020

RCMP say it will be spring before investigation wraps into Alberta bus rollover

JASPER, Alta. - RCMP say it will be at least spring before an investigation wraps up into last summer's deadly tour bus rollover in the Alberta Rocky Mountains. Three people were killed and 14 were cr...

Dec 24, 2020

Pandemic pushed up timeline for long-sought EI review, Qualtrough says

OTTAWA - Canada's employment minister says plans to revamp the employment insurance system have been put on a faster path thanks to COVID-19. The pandemic has exposed shortcomings in EI, including tha...

Dec 24, 2020

Military bases struggling with personnel shortages, internal review finds

OTTAWA - An internal review by the Department of National Defence has found that Canadian military bases across the country are struggling with personnel shortages. The reviewers found the average bas...

Dec 24, 2020

Ontario posts new case record as Trudeau strikes hopeful note in holiday message

Ontario is reporting a new daily record for COVID-19 infections as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledges this Christmas won't be the one Canadians had hoped for. Canada's most populous province r...

Dec 24, 2020

Quebec watchdog completes its probe into police-involved death of Chantel Moore

FREDERICTON - Quebec's police watchdog has completed its investigation into the New Brunswick police-involved killing of Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman. The watchdog, known as the Burea...

Dec 24, 2020

Trudeau urges Canadians to keep others safe this Christmas: In The News for Dec. 24

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 Dec. 24 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Greg Fry Dec 24, 2020

'Grave risk:' Advocates say inmates should get speedy access to COVID-19 vaccine

Advocates say inmates should have speedy access to the COVID-19 vaccine, given how susceptible prisons and jails have been to outbreaks and how prevalent chronic disease is in that population. "I don'...

Dec 24, 2020

'Very hopeful:' Planning underway for modified Calgary Stampede in 2021

CALGARY - A world-famous annual rodeo that survived the Great Depression, two world wars and a devastating flood seven years ago was felled by a microscopic virus this year and will have a different l...

Dec 24, 2020