Canada

With key rate unlikely to move, focus shifts to Bank of Canada's take on economy

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada will deliver an interest rate announcement today with observers watching if news about vaccines gives a shot in the arm to the bank's outlook on the economy. The central ba...

Dec 09, 2020

Trial continues for teen accused in sex assaults at St. Michael's College School

An Ontario court will hear more testimony today in the case of a teen boy accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students at a prestigious Toronto private school. The teen has pleaded not guilty to...

Dec 09, 2020

Lametti plans public consultation on promised criminal conviction review commission

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is poised to consult Canadians on how to go about creating an independent commission to review possible wrongful convictions for criminal offences. The coming move will...

Dec 09, 2020

Meng's lawyer suggests RCMP and border agency jointly controlled her before arrest

VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer involved in the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport two years ago says the Mounties would have stepped in if she had tried to flee while in the custody of officia...

Dec 08, 2020

Two Vancouver police officers charged with assault in arrest of a Black man

VANCOUVER - Assault charges have been laid against two Vancouver police officers after the arrest of a Black man in February 2018. The B.C. Prosecution Service said Tuesday that Const. Jarrod Sidhu is...

Dec 08, 2020

Kovrig, Spavor are 'inspiring' and 'robust' in Chinese prison, says Canada's envoy

OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are physically and mentally well and showing inspiring resilience as they near the end of their second year of imprisonment...

Dec 08, 2020

B.C. ministers pay tribute to Joseph Arvay, lawyer and civil rights champion

VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general paid tribute Tuesday to a lawyer he credited with reforming Canada's legal landscape and fighting for the rights of all Canadians throughout his lifetime...

Dec 08, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Alberta tightens COVID restrictions; closes restaurants, casinos, gyms

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province relentlessly pounded by thousands of new COVID-19 cases, has reintroduced strict economic lockdown rules and banned all outdoor social gatherings....

Dec 08, 2020

Saga over senator who posted anti-Indigenous letters continues in Senate

OTTAWA - Lynn Beyak, the senator who posted derogatory letters about Indigenous people on her website, once again faces the prospect of expulsion from the Senate. The Senate's ethics committee recomme...

Dec 08, 2020

New Brunswick woman remains stranded a week after storm washes out bridge to home

SUSSEX, N.B. - A New Brunswick woman finds herself still stranded a week after flooding washed out a bridge to her home. Mary Ann Coleman of Waterford, N.B., says she knew there was a problem when the...

Dec 08, 2020