Canada

Feds detail $100 million pledged to fight food insecurity during COVID-19 pandemic

OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says the federal government will distribute $30 million to Indigenous communities and about $65 million to local organizations across Canada to suppor...

Dec 18, 2020

Nova Scotia RCMP using helicopter in search for five missing scallop fishermen

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP say they plan to use a helicopter today to continue the search for five fishermen whose boat sank in the Bay of Fundy on Tuesday morning. The Mounties issued a statement...

Dec 18, 2020

Moderna ends frozen requirements for vaccine, easing logistics of shipping

OTTAWA - American biotech firm Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine can now be shipped locally without it needing to be frozen at all. The messenger RNA vaccine from the Massachusetts-based company is on...

Dec 18, 2020

Closing arguments in van trial and support for two Michaels: In The News for Dec. 18

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. 18 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Dec 18, 2020

Champagne says he takes 'no lessons' from China on courting support for two Michaels

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is shooting back at China's criticism of Canada's efforts to build an international alliance to free Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor fro...

Dec 18, 2020

Federal health minister asked to review Alberta's use of strychnine as wolf control

EDMONTON - Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. Wo...

Dec 18, 2020

Prosecution to give closing arguments in Toronto's van attack trial

TORONTO - The prosecution will deliver its closing arguments today at the trial for the man who killed 10 people in Toronto's van attack. Alek Minassian has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of first-de...

Dec 18, 2020

RCMP officers recognized N.S. gunman after pulling up at gas pump next to him

HALIFAX - A new report from an independent police watchdog reveals that the April 19 fatal shooting of the Nova Scotia mass killer occurred after two RCMP officers happened to pull up at a gas pump ne...

Dec 17, 2020

Justice, public safety ministers discuss need for anti-racism training

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says a need for anti-racism training for all people working in the criminal justice system was a focus of conversation with his counterparts from across the ...

Dec 17, 2020

Coalition Avenir Quebec member out of caucus for not following COVID-19 rules at bar

QUEBEC - A member of the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec party is temporarily out of caucus after a video surfaced of him breaking COVID-19 rules at a holiday gathering. In a statement released by t...

Dec 17, 2020