Canada

Debate about televised political debates heats up after presidential 'dumpster fire'

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Hot mess, dumpster fire, train wreck: the reviews of the presidential debate are in, and they're not good. So universally condemned was Tuesday's televised clash, it is fuell...

Sep 30, 2020

Tories and Bloc say they supported COVID-19 aid package to help Canadians

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives and Bloc Qubcois say they voted in favour of the Liberal government's new financial-aid package for workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because Canadians need ...

Sep 30, 2020

Blanchet, O'Toole return to Parliament, urge Canadians to guard against COVID-19

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says he is lucky to have caught a mild case of COVID-19, but that many Canadians aren't so lucky, which is why everyone needs to keep their guard up...

Sep 30, 2020

Judge urged to keep Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing moving

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is trying to fight their case against charges she faces in the United States in a Canadian co...

Sep 30, 2020

Statistics Canada to unveil GDP reading for July

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will say today how the economy fared in July with expectations that it grew, albeit at a slower pace than in June. The average economist estimate for GDP growth in July is t...

Sep 30, 2020

COVID-19 cases rising in Indigenous communities

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous communities have been facing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks. Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been re...

Sep 30, 2020

Quebec's second wave driven by community transmission, muddled messaging, expert says

MONTREAL - Quebecers following the COVID-19 news in recent days may be feeling a certain sense of deja vu. The government has been announcing 700, 800, even close to 900 new cases per day - numbers no...

Sep 30, 2020

Green party kept donations meant for Glen Murray campaign in error

OTTAWA - The federal Green party says it accidentally kept donations that were meant to support the leadership campaign of Glen Murray. The party says contributions meant for the former Winnipeg mayor...

Sep 29, 2020

Fredericton city councillors divided after poet laureate reads abortion poem

Fredericton city council is considering ending the custom of opening public meetings with a poem after the city's poet laureate read lyrical verses about abortion during a meeting Monday night. ...

Sep 29, 2020

Liberals revive efforts to make Sept. 30 holiday for Indigenous reconciliation

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is reviving its effort to create a new statutory holiday to commemorate the victims and survivors of Indigenous residential schools. Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault...

Sep 29, 2020