Canada

Royal Canadian Navy to replace 'seaman' in rank titles with gender-neutral term

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Navy is looking to chart new waters by dropping the term "seaman" when referring to its most junior sailors and replacing it with something more gender-neutral. Navies arou...

Jul 16, 2020

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Federal judge calls for review of CSIS over latest failure on warrants

OTTAWA - A federal judge says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service failed to disclose its reliance on information that was likely collected illegally when seeking warrants to probe extremis...

Jul 16, 2020

Police suggest missing Quebec father may be alive and seeking shelter

ST-APOLLINAIRE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say the father of two young girls found dead over the weekend in a rural area southwest of Quebec City may be desperate and looking for materials to ens...

Jul 16, 2020

Russian hackers seeking to steal COVID-19 vaccine data: intel agencies

OTTAWA - Canadian, British and U.S. security services say hackers they believe are working for Russian intelligence have been trying to steal research on COVID-19 vaccines from organizations in all th...

Jul 16, 2020

Study suggests 8 times more people in B.C. infected with virus than confirmed

VICTORIA - A new study suggests eight times as many people in Metro Vancouver have been infected by the novel coronavirus than the rate of reported cases. The joint study by researchers at the B....

Jul 16, 2020

Compared to U.S., Canada no saint either on Indigenous rights, racism: experts

WASHINGTON - As one of America's most familiar sports franchises finally confronts its controversial identity, experts warn against assuming Canada is farther along than the United States in...

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 resol...

Jul 16, 2020

'They haven't even apologized,' says mother of man killed by police after calling 911

TORONTO - The silence inside the Campbells' home west of Toronto has grown like a cancer in the weeks since April 6. That's when D'Andre Campbell, one of six siblings who live in the Brampton, On...

Jul 16, 2020

WE charity probe and Colville painting shatters record; In The News for July 16

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 July 16 ... What...

Jul 16, 2020

Commons finance committee to begin probing WE Charity's volunteering contract

OTTAWA - The first of multiple parliamentary investigations of the federal government's aborted deal with WE Charity to run a volunteering program begins this afternoon. The House of Commons finance c...

Jul 16, 2020