Canada

Visits suspended at federal prisons in Quebec to prevent potential COVID spread

MONTREAL - The Correctional Service of Canada says it is suspending visits to federal prisons in Quebec to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19. The agency says temporary absences and wo...

Sep 27, 2020

Locked-up computer systems only part of 'terrifying' ransomware scourge

TORONTO - A shadowy group of cyber criminals that attacked a prominent nursing organization and Canadian Tire store has successfully targeted other companies with clients in governments, health care, ...

Sep 27, 2020

End of CERB means uncertainty for some, new system for others

OTTAWA - In mid-March, Christine Ilott's manager broke some bad news to her: she was losing her job in live theatre as a result of the pandemic. The 47-year-old went home to her basement apartme...

Sep 27, 2020

Author says acquittal on child pornography charges allows him to 'breathe again'

A Quebec author acquitted last week of child pornography charges in connection with passages in a horror novel says he - and fiction writers across the country - can "breathe again." Yv...

Sep 27, 2020

Mi'kmaq power, inside and beyond Ottawa, stronger than in past fishery battles

HALIFAX - When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster trap...

Sep 27, 2020

WE Charity controversy prompts examination of group's overseas footprint

The controversy around WE Charity in Canada is opening the door to a public discussion about whether WE - and groups like it - actually help the African communities where they operate. ...

Sep 27, 2020

End of CERB means uncertainty for some, new system for others

OTTAWA - In mid-March, Christine Ilott's manager broke some bad news to her: she was losing her job in live theatre as a result of the pandemic. The 47-year-old went home to her basement apartme...

Sep 27, 2020

The 'relentless underdog': Green Leader Sonia Furstenau ready for uphill battle

Green Leader Sonia Furstenau was driving Monday when she turned on the radio and learned an early election would be called that day in British Columbia. She felt a kind of disappointment that sh...

Sep 27, 2020

Montreal demonstrators demand climate justice a year after Greta Thunberg speech

MONTREAL - Demonstrators gathered in downtown Montreal on Saturday to protest planetary warming on the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The coalition behind the event is calling for net zero ...

Sep 26, 2020

Demonstration in Fredericton as private abortion clinic to lose its doctor

FREDERICTON - A doctor who runs a private abortion clinic in Fredericton says he can't afford to continue subsidizing the service and is leaving the practice for another job at the end of th...

Sep 26, 2020