Canada

RCMP secrets-case arrest triggered internal warnings, advisories to Mounties

OTTAWA - After the shocking arrest of one of their own on national-secrecy charges, rank-and-file Mounties were encouraged to get counselling if needed, decline to speak with the media ...

Jan 28, 2020

Toronto-area mayors, police chiefs meet to discuss gun violence

TORONTO - Mayors and police chiefs from the Toronto area are meeting today to discuss a recent spike in gun violence throughout the region. Toronto Mayor John Tory says he called the meeting - wh...

Jan 28, 2020

Birds flocking to national parks in the Canadian Rockies

BANFF, Alta. - It turns out tourists aren't the only ones who love the national parks in the Canadian Rockies. Despite recent studies showing bird populations are declining in many areas of North Amer...

Jan 28, 2020

As 106 reported dead from a virus outbreak, countries look to evacuate citizens

China has confirmed more than 4,500 cases of a new form of coronavirus, with 106 deaths. Nearly all of the fatalities have been in central Hubei province, but the new total includes the first death in...

Jan 28, 2020

Inquiry into Afghanistan vet who killed family, self, to continue in Nova Scotia

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry into an Afghanistan war veteran who shot and killed three members of this family before turning the gun on himself continues today in Nova Scotia. It's the second full d...

Jan 28, 2020

A wolf is trapped and an RCMP arrest prompts warnings; In The News for Jan. 28

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 Jan. 28 ... What we are wa...

Jan 28, 2020

Man who flew to Toronto from China is Canada's first coronavirus case

TORONTO - A man in his 50s who travelled to Toronto from China earlier this week has become the first Canadian case of the new coronavirus, health officials said Saturday as they urged ...

Jan 27, 2020

RCMP intelligence official faces new charges in secrecy case

OTTAWA - The federal prosecution service says a senior RCMP official faces three new charges for alleged secrecy breaches. Cameron Jay Ortis, director general of the RCMP's National Intellig...

Jan 27, 2020

Dominic LeBlanc back in Commons for first time since cancer diagnosis

OTTAWA - Veteran Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc took his front-bench seat in the House of Commons on Monday for the first time since he was diagnosed with a form of blood ca...

Jan 27, 2020

Leaders pay tribute, MPs call for justice for Canadians who died on Flight PS752

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has paid tribute in the House of Commons to those who died on the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet shot down outside Tehran earlier this month, as MP...

Jan 27, 2020