Canada

More COVID-19 restrictions being lifted across the country

Some Quebec schools were reopening and more Ontario retailers were offering curbside pickup on Monday as Ottawa promised to help some of the country's biggest employers stay afloat during th...

May 11, 2020

Police-escorted motorcade to accompany remains of helicopter crash victim

HALIFAX - The remains of Sub-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough, a Royal Canadian Navy sailor killed last month in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece, were expected to arrive in Halifax on ...

May 11, 2020

'Heavy handed' approach would force inspectors into infected plants: Union

OTTAWA - Canada's Agriculture Union says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will order non-meat inspectors into meat plants under threat of discipline. The union says the agency is ins...

May 11, 2020

Scheer backs Liberal Taiwan push at WHO as move long advocated by Conservatives

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is backing the Liberal government's efforts to include Taiwan in the World Health Organization discussions on COVID-19, a position that China opposes. But Sc...

May 11, 2020

Nova Scotia mass killer's semi-automatic guns believed to have come from U.S.

HALIFAX - The RCMP says three of the four semi-automatic weapons used by a gunman during last month's mass shooting in Nova Scotia are believed to have come from the Unit...

May 11, 2020

Ottawa to help big businesses weather the COVID 19 crisis

OTTAWA-Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains have announced the federal government will provide loans and financing to Canada's biggest companies. Bridge financing will be ...

May 11, 2020

Feds pledge COVID-19 financing help for the country's biggest companies

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will provide loans and financing to the country's largest employers to help them weather the COVID-19 economic crisis. The Liberals are promising bridge financi...

May 11, 2020

Relaxing restrictions and the Cargill concern: In The News for May 11

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 May 11 ... --- C...

May 11, 2020

Quebec reopens some elementary schools, daycares after COVID-19 shutdowns

MONTREAL - Some Quebec children will be back in class today for the first time since March as the province reopens elementary schools and day cares outside the Montreal area. While the ...

May 11, 2020

United States increasingly concerned over pollution from B.C. mines

The U.S. government is increasingly concerned with pollution from British Columbia mines following new research that shows contaminants in a river south of the border came fro...

May 11, 2020