Canada

Feds split rapid-housing cash between big cities, offer up rest for projects

OTTAWA - Fifteen cities will share $500 million in federal funding so they can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to help keep people from becoming homeless. Canad...

Oct 27, 2020

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11:50 a.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's COVID Alert app is up to 4.8 million downloads. But, he says, Canada is n...

Oct 27, 2020

Canada-U. S. refugee pact to remain in place until court challenge is resolved

OTTAWA - A judge says a refugee pact between Canada and the United States will remain in place until a full legal hearing of the measure is resolved.In a new ruling, Federal Court of Appeal Justice Da...

Oct 27, 2020

Poll suggests Canadians skittish on future immigration increases as pandemic persists

OTTAWA - New data suggests that Canadians are feeling skittish about any future increases in immigration levels for the next 12 months. Fifty-two per cent of those polled by Leger and the Associ...

Oct 27, 2020

Fredericton shooter Mathew Raymond testifies in his defence at murder trial

FREDERICTON - The man on trial for the 2018 Fredericton mass shooting has begun testifying in his own defence. Matthew Raymond is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the Aug. 10, 2018 d...

Oct 27, 2020

Most Canadians don't want federal election until at least 2022, new poll suggests

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests most Canadians don't want a federal election during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic - or even next year. The results suggest 47 per cent of respondents want the n...

Oct 27, 2020

Too rural, not enough diversity, soul searching needed, say B.C. Liberals

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Liberal party should view the election results as a wake-up call from voters who punished the free-enterprise coalition for refusing to renew itself in changing times, sa...

Oct 27, 2020

Indigenous-led clinic to help Quebec community still shaken by Joyce Echaquan's death

MONTREAL - The idea is simple, says Jennifer Brazeau, executive director of the Native Friendship Centre in Quebec's Lanaudiere region: provide "a culturally secure space" where Indigenous people can ...

Oct 27, 2020

Canadians don't want to 'rock the boat' when voting during pandemic: experts

EDMONTON - Monday's re-election of another incumbent premier in Canada's third recent provincial election shows Canadians don't want to "rock the boat" during a global pandemic, say political experts....

Oct 26, 2020

QuickSketch: A look at Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe

REGINA - A look at Scott Moe, leader of the Saskatchewan Party:Born: July 31, 1973, in Prince Albert, Sask.Early years: Raised as the oldest in a family of five on a grain farm near Shellbrook, Sask. ...

Oct 26, 2020