Canada

False alarm at Ontario nuclear plant prompts surge in iodide pill orders

TORONTO - Ontarians placed more than 32,000 orders for iodide pills in the two days following a false alarm about an incident at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. There are normally between 100 an...

Jan 16, 2020

Canadian investigators in Iran and royals in Canada; In The News for Jan. 14

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. 14 ... What we are watchin...

Jan 16, 2020

Leaders meet on plane crash and John Crosbie's funeral; In The News for Jan. 16

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. 16 ... What we are watchin...

Jan 16, 2020

Tight rules for Conservative leadership prompt Bryan Brulotte to drop out

OTTAWA - Tight new rules for the Conservative leadership election have led businessman and longtime party volunteer Bryan Brulotte to declare he's no longer making a bid for the job. In...

Jan 16, 2020

Promised 25 per cent wireless rate cut is on top of recent reductions: Bains

OTTAWA - The federal government is making clear that cuts to wireless rates it expects from mobile-phone service providers must be in addition to price reductions already seen since 2016. Bu...

Jan 16, 2020

Zelensky says he, Trudeau talk crash punishment, as Iran announces arrests

OTTAWA - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says he and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have discussed the need to "punish" the Iranians responsible for the downing of the Ukrainian airlin...

Jan 16, 2020

Politicians past and present expected in St. John's for John Crosbie funeral

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Past and present politicians of all stripes are expected in St. John's, N.L., today to pay their last respects to John Crosbie. The former federal cabinet minister and lieutena...

Jan 16, 2020

Foreign affairs minister in London to chair meeting on plane crash

LONDON - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is chairing a meeting in London today that the federal government hopes will lead to justice and financial compensation for the famil...

Jan 16, 2020

Inuit women in Canada's north encountering 'racialized policing,' report says

OTTAWA - A new report on how police respond to violence against women in Canada's four northern Inuit regions says researchers have uncovered "systemic racialized policing" there. Inter...

Jan 15, 2020

Duchess of Sussex visits women's shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

VANCOUVER - A women's shelter in Vancouver received a royal visit on Tuesday from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, as she and husband Prince Harry plot their part-time move to Canada. The Downtown Easts...

Jan 15, 2020