Canada

Premiers warn billions more needed from feds to weather COVID-19 crisis

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got thanks from Canada's premiers Friday for $11-billion in federal funding to confront the health and economic impact of the rapidly spreading no...

Mar 13, 2020

Concerns raised over COVID-19 outbreak plans for Indigenous communities

Ottawa's plans to respond to possible COVID-19 outbreaks in remote, fly-in and already vulnerable Indigenous communities are getting a failing grade from Opposition politicians who say they ...

Mar 13, 2020

Criminal case against top military judge collapses, charges withdrawn

OTTAWA - The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief milit...

Mar 13, 2020

Passengers on last flight into Canada from Rome talk of empty city

MONTREAL - Doris Hamelin and her husband Rejean Vallee said the restaurants in Rome shut down at 6 p.m. Tuesday and the only place they could find food was the grocery store. In a bid t...

Mar 13, 2020

Black boxes from downed Ukrainian flight to be transferred to Kyiv

OTTAWA - The flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by the Iranian military in January will be arriving in Ukraine in 10 to 14 days, the country's envoy to Canada said Wednesday. Ambas...

Mar 13, 2020

NewsAlert: Manitoba closing schools Monday due to COVID-19 pandemic

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says it is closing schools for three weeks because of COVID-19. Education Minister Kelvin Goertzen says classes will be suspended starting Monday. He says the decisi...

Mar 13, 2020

Amnesty International raises Greta sticker in letter to Trudeau, premiers

CALGARY - Amnesty International says it's not enough for political leaders to condemn a sexually suggestive decal appearing to show teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and they should do more to...

Mar 13, 2020

N.B. Tories survive budget vote as parties unite over coronavirus concerns

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's minority Progressive Conservative government has survived a confidence vote on its provincial budget as members of the legislature set aside partisan differences to&...

Mar 13, 2020

Federal Liberals to deliver 2020 budget on March 30, Morneau says

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals will deliver the first budget of their minority mandate at the end of the month. Finance Minister Bill Morneau told the House of Commons on Wednesday that the federal Lib...

Mar 13, 2020

Mosques across Canada cancel, alter Friday prayer to limit spread of COVID-19

TORONTO - Mosques across the country have cancelled or altered their Friday prayer programs, after two Islamic associations called for the practice to be suspended to prevent the spread of COVID-19. T...

Mar 13, 2020