Canada

Canada prepares as WHO decides whether to declare global coronavirus emergency

Canadian public health agencies are ramping up preparations to deal with the coronavirus as the World Health Organization prepares to give more information on whether to declare the outbreak in C...

Jan 23, 2020

Response to the coronavirus and a protest-for-hire; In The News for Jan. 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 Jan. 23 ... What we are wa...

Jan 23, 2020

Professional Lego builder 'hasn't worn a tie for years' after giving up IT job

VANCOUVER - Many years ago when Ryan McNaught was an IT professional he got an email from his manager who wanted to have a meeting about the number of meetings they were having. "I knew right then tha...

Jan 23, 2020

Project by art students from New York may help police identify dead in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Police are hoping a sculpture workshop at the New York Academy of Art will help solve the mysteries of 14 unidentified remains found in British Columbia. The RCMP released photos Wedn...

Jan 22, 2020

Quebec to expand assisted death to mentally ill, but few expected to qualify

MONTREAL - Quebec plans to expand medical aid in dying to include people with severe, incurable mental illness, the province's health minister says, with guidelines to be drawn up by the provinci...

Jan 22, 2020

Names in the mix: a list of potential Conservative leadership contenders

OTTAWA - The Conservative leadership race is underway and the deadline to register as a candidate and meet the first round of requirements is Feb. 27. These candidates have officially declared they in...

Jan 22, 2020

Manitoba RCMP spent less than $800K on massive manhunt after B.C. killings

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Mounties say they spent less than $800,000 on a massive search last summer for two young men wanted for three killings in northern British Columbia. RCMP Cpl. Julie Courchaine says...

Jan 22, 2020

SNC-Lavalin drops court challenge over bid for special agreement

OTTAWA - Montreal-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin has ended its court challenge of the federal prosecution service's decision to deny it a special agreement to avoid crimin...

Jan 22, 2020

Ted Hughes, British Columbia's first conflict watchdog, dies at 92

VICTORIA - Ted Hughes, whose reports led to the resignation of a premier and the overhaul of child welfare systems in British Columbia and Manitoba, has died. He was 92. Hughes was...

Jan 22, 2020

Humane Society removes 80 cats from home in Guelph, Ont.

GUELPH, Ont. - The Guelph Humane Society says it has taken in 80 cats that were found in a home in the southwestern Ontario city. The organization's executive director says they were called ...

Jan 22, 2020