Canada

Feds, provinces reach deal on funding for reopening, Trudeau announces

OTTAWA - The federal, provincial and territorial governments have reached a deal on billions of dollars in transfers to continue reopening economies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Jus...

Jul 16, 2020

Feds, provinces reach deal on funding for reopening from COVID-19

OTTAWA - The federal, provincial and territorial governments have reached a deal on billions of dollars in transfers to continue reopening economies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Jus...

Jul 16, 2020

Canadian Press NewsAlert: B.C. sets another record with monthly overdose deaths

VANCOUVER - Another record for monthly overdose deaths related to illicit drugs has been set in British Columbia. The BC Coroners Service says 175 fatalities in June surpassed the previous high o...

Jul 16, 2020

Canadian hospitality workers fear long-term unemployment in the sector

VANCOUVER - The union representing 300,000 hospitality workers across the country says it fears staff laid off because of COVID-19 may not have a job when the pandemic is over. The Canadian direc...

Jul 16, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Thursday, July 16

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on July 16, 2020:There are 108,829 confirmed cases in Canada._ Quebec: 56,859 confirmed (including 5,636 deaths, 26,097 resolve...

Jul 16, 2020

Manitoba judge points to systemic issues in Indigenous woman's killing

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge sentencing a young man for beating his own mother to death has denounced systemic issues the judge says leave Indigenous people at risk. "The ruin of the First Na...

Jul 16, 2020

Ousted Green candidate says he is sorry for comment but insists it was not racist

OTTAWA - The Green party has shown the door to one of its leadership candidates, saying several of his recent comments do not align with the party's values on diversity. Dylan Perceval-Maxwell wa...

Jul 16, 2020

DHS confirms Canada, U.S. extending mutual travel ban into late August

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says Canada and the United States have agreed to extend their mutual ban on non-essential travel between the two countries until Aug. 20. Acting H...

Tanner King Jul 16, 2020

Quebec firm made illegal donations to Liberals, Tories over seven years

OTTAWA - Canada's elections watchdog says a Quebec engineering firm illegally donated more than $46,000 to federal political entities over a period of seven years. The firm, now known as Norda Stelo I...

Jul 16, 2020

Canada's militarized police forces face defunding and de-tasking', experts say

HALIFAX - As a statement of police power, the armoured rescue vehicle that Halifax Regional Police had planned to buy for more than $300,000 spoke volumes about the militarization of law enf...

Jul 16, 2020