Canada

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 24, 2021. There are 946,370 confirmed cases in Canada. <b>_ Canada: 946,370 confirmed cases (37,10...

Mar 24, 2021

21-year-old and 15-year-old charged with first-degree murder in death of B.C. woman

BURNABY, B.C. - Homicide investigators say a 15-year-old and a 21-year-old have been charged with first-degree murder after a woman's burned body was found in a park in Burnaby, B.C. Cpl. Frank Jang o...

Mar 24, 2021

Supreme Court decision on pivotal carbon tax case coming today

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court will issue a decision this morning on the fate of the federal price on pollution. It could become a landmark case for the division of federal and provincial powers, and is a...

Mar 24, 2021

Supreme Court to rule Thursday on whether carbon tax is constitutional

OTTAWA - It's make-it-or-break-it time for the federal government's national price on pollution.The Supreme Court of Canada will decide Thursday whether Ottawa's "carbon tax" is constitutional or if t...

Mar 24, 2021

Scandal-scarred Lethbridge, Alta., police force told to fix problems or get shut down

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister has given the scandal-scarred Lethbridge Police Service until April 16 to serve up an action plan to fix its problems or face being disbanded. Kaycee Madu says ch...

Mar 24, 2021

COVID-19 weakened environmental rules across Canada, mostly in Alberta: study

CALGARY - Alberta relaxed more environmental rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic than any other government in Canada, says a study from the University of Calgary. "I didn't find any other juris...

Mar 24, 2021

Military 'playbook' lacks plan for dealing with cases against defence chiefs

OTTAWA - An early version of a new "playbook" to help Canada's top military commander deal with allegations of misconduct involving senior officers appears to provide little in the way of new directio...

Mar 24, 2021

Crown says it was reasonable for border screening to precede Meng's arrest

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says it was entirely reasonable for border officers to question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou before her arrest in 2018. Diba Majzub told the B.C. Su...

Mar 24, 2021

Industry minister foresees biomanufacturing revival, including vaccines — eventually

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne sees a future for Canada as a leader in biomanufacturing, including vaccines - but not soon. In a speech at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolita...

Mar 24, 2021

Conservatives call on Liberals to stop payments to Chinese infrastructure bank

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to stop making payments to the Asian Infrastructure Bank in light of the ongoing detention and lack of transparency around the trials o...

Mar 24, 2021