Canada

CP NewsAlert: Manitoba reports record COVID-19 spike, shuts some businesses

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is ordering many businesses in the Winnipeg region to close after a record increase in COVID-19 cases. The province is reporting 480 new COVID-19 cases - more than d...

Oct 30, 2020

Canadian Rangers deployed to Neskantaga First Nation during water crisis, Miller says

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Canadian Rangers should be on the ground in Neskantaga First Nation today. The remote community in northern Ontario has mostly been evacuated aft...

Oct 30, 2020

Canadians need to cut contacts by a quarter to control COVID-19 outbreak: Tam

New federal projections suggest that Canadians need to cut a quarter of their contacts to keep the COVID-19 outbreak from resurging. The modelling indicates that at current rates of in-person socializ...

Oct 30, 2020

Fallen construction magnate ordered to pay $2 million after pleading guilty to fraud

MONTREAL - One-time Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso and several companies tied to him have been ordered to pay $4.2 million after pleading guilty to tax fraud.Quebec's Revenue Department said...

Oct 30, 2020

Lobster dispute: RCMP release images of men near fish plant that was torched

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP released images today showing two men walking away from a fish plant on the same night it was burned to the ground amid an escalating dispute over an Indigenous lobster ...

Oct 30, 2020

Five Things about Canada's foreign-policy end run around Donald Trump

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne was recently pondering Canada's place in the world from his home in Shawinigan, Que., "the command centre of foreign policy, these days," a...

Oct 30, 2020

Trudeau names former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner as new consul general in Boston

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner to represent Canada as the country's consul general in Boston.Cuzner was an MP for Cape Breton for nearly 20 years but...

Oct 30, 2020

Class-action lawsuit in investment case can go ahead, Supreme Court rules

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a class-action suit over personal investments can proceed against a Montreal-based financial services firm. Between 2005 and 2007, Ronald Asselin purchased pr...

Oct 30, 2020

Group launches legal action against N.B. government for greater abortion access

FREDERICTON - A national civil liberties group has filed legal notice in the first stage of a suit against the New Brunswick for lack of access to abortion. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ha...

Oct 30, 2020

Scientists link high levels of genetic material from virus in blood to severe COVID

HALIFAX - Canadian immunologists say they're finding telltale markers in patients' blood that help predict the severity of COVID-19 and could lead to more targeted treatments. David Kelvin, a Dalhousi...

Oct 30, 2020