Canada

Feds relaxing new fuel standards in short term, but making them tougher by 2030

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is scaling back the government's planned Clean Fuel Standard in the short term to give the fossil fuel industry a bit more time to recover from the pan...

Jun 19, 2020

Nunavut court approves teacher sex abuse class action against governments

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A Nunavut court has approved a class-action lawsuit against the federal government and two territories over sex abuse of Inuit children by a teacher. Maurice Cloughley has already s...

Jun 19, 2020

Work stoppage in support of Juneteenth shuts down West Coast ports

VANCOUVER - Ports along the West Coast of Canada and the United States are quiet as workers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stop operations to support racial equality an...

Jun 19, 2020

Feds invite comment on information law amid concerns about pandemic slowdowns

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is inviting Canadians to say what they think of the federal law that allows the public to request information from federal departments and agencies. But ...

Jun 19, 2020

China charges two Canadians with spying in Huawei-linked case

BEIJING - China has charged two detained Canadians with spying, escalating tensions between the two countries following the arrest in Vancouver 18 months ago of a senior Huawei executiv...

Jun 19, 2020

Pandemic erases Quebec's projected surplus, throws province into $15-billion deficit

Quebec is projecting a $15-billion deficit for the current fiscal year, three months after Finance Minister Eric Girard forecast a surplus of nearly $3 billion. Girard's economic update, released toda...

Jun 19, 2020

Juneteenth in Tulsa: freedom still a distant, delayed dream for Black America

TULSA, Okla. - Black Americans are gathering today to mark the anniversary of an emancipation that came two and a half years late - liberty that many say feels like it never came at all. It's bee...

Jun 19, 2020

'Two Michaels' charged in China and policing the police; In The News for June 19

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 June 19 ... What...

Jun 19, 2020

O'Toole sidesteps clear definition, acknowledgment of systemic racism

TORONTO - As three Conservative leadership candidates acknowledged the need to address systemic racism in Canada, a fourth, Erin O'Toole, wouldn't say whether he believes it exists. A party member ask...

Jun 19, 2020

Trudeau pushes wage subsidy as another small business aid program is delayed

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit a gourmet cafe in Quebec today to underline his plea to small business owners to use the federal wage subsidy program to rehire wo...

Jun 19, 2020