Canada

Legal groups file three complaints over VPD treatment of Palestine protesters

VANCOUVER - The Pivot Legal Society and the BC Civil Liberties Association say they've launched three complaints against the Vancouver Police Department alleging illegal surveillance and police brutal...

Sep 18, 2024

Canada abstains from UN motion calling on Israel to end occupation of Gaza, West Bank

OTTAWA - Canada abstained today from a high-profile United Nations vote demanding that Israel end its "unlawful presence" in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank within a year. Canada's ambassado...

Sep 18, 2024

Ottawa announces it's further reducing the number of international student permits

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will slash the number of international student visas it issues by another 10 per cent. The government says the new target for 2025 and 2026 will be 437,000 permits. In ...

Sep 18, 2024

Canadian Coast Guard crew member lost at sea off Newfoundland

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A crew member of a Canadian Coast Guard ship has been lost at sea off southern Newfoundland. The agency said in a release today that an extensive search and rescue effort for the ma...

Sep 18, 2024

Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez to seek Quebec Liberal leadership

OTTAWA - Federal Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez is expected to resign from cabinet to seek the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party. A federal Liberal source, who was not authorized to speak pub...

Sep 18, 2024

Conservatives' non-confidence motion will make no mention of carbon price

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed he will ask the other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government next week with a non-confidence motion. A Conservative spokesp...

Sep 18, 2024

In the news today: Foreign interference inquiry resumes, Indigenous artist recognized

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Inquiry to hear from MPs targeted by meddling A federal inquiry into foreign interference is slated to hear to...

Sep 18, 2024

Public inquiry to hear from current, former MPs targeted by foreign meddling

OTTAWA - A federal inquiry into foreign interference is slated to hear today from current and former politicians who have been singled out by meddlers. Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Conserv...

Sep 18, 2024

16 soldiers injured in accident at Valcartier military base in Quebec

CFB VALCARTIER - More than a dozen soldiers were sent to hospital this afternoon after an accident at a military base in Quebec. Capt. Hermione Wilson, a public affairs officer with the Canadian Armed...

Sep 17, 2024

Man from Phoenix, Ariz., missing after truck plunges off Yukon bridge

WHITEHORSE - Whitehorse RCMP say a man from Phoenix, Ariz., is missing after the truck he was travelling in went off a bridge and plunged into the Yukon River. Police say the crash happened on Monday ...

Sep 17, 2024