Canada

Canada's COVID death toll passes 2,000; Trudeau pledges $1.1B for research

TORONTO - Canada's COVID-19 death toll passed the 2,000 mark on Thursday as scientists across the country scrambled to find ways to mitigate the pandemic in the form of a treatment or vaccine and...

Apr 23, 2020

Trudeau says military short-term solution to caring for seniors

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the military will respond to provincial requests for assistance at long-term care facilities. But he says the measure is a short-term solution and that Cana...

Apr 23, 2020

Feds pour $1.1B into COVID-19 vaccine development, tracking of cases

OTTAWA - The federal government will spend more than $1 billion to help develop, test and manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as to determine how widely the virus has spread through Canada, P...

Apr 23, 2020

Federal prison tensions rise amid COVID lockdowns; activists want releases

TORONTO - Efforts to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Canada's federal prisons have led to an increase in tensions that have prompted correctional officers to use force on at least two occasion...

Apr 23, 2020

Nova Scotia RCMP officers shot at rural fire hall during search for killer

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating why two RCMP officers started shooting at a fire hall while a killer disguised as a Mountie was on the loose. Pat Curran, interi...

Apr 23, 2020

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:25 a.m. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking the federal government to give local governments bill...

Apr 23, 2020

Supreme Court will not hear appeal challenging law on succession to the throne

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a bid to throw out a law that modified the rules governing succession to the throne. The Canadian law stems from a 2011 agreement among Commonwealth ...

Apr 23, 2020

Top court won't hear bid to broaden Phoenix pay system class action

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a bid to have more federal civil servants included in a class-action lawsuit against the government over the faulty Phoenix pay system. The system, i...

Apr 23, 2020

Mobilizing scientists and easing COVID-19 restrictions; In The News for April 23

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 April 23 ... ---...

Apr 23, 2020

StatCan to release survey of how COVID-19 is affecting us

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is promising to release today the results of a survey on how Canadians are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency is calling its voluntary online survey a "crowdsou...

Apr 23, 2020