Canada

Senate bill would require age verification for Canadians accessing porn sites

OTTAWA - A Senate bill that would require Canadians to verify their age online before accessing porn is moving through the House of Commons without the support of the Liberal government. Independent S...

Dec 14, 2023

NDP and Liberals set new deadline for introduction of pharmacare bill

OTTAWA - The NDP and Liberals have agreed to a new March 1 deadline for the federal government to introduce pharmacare legislation in the House of Commons, as part of their supply-and-confidence deal....

Dec 14, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Residents can return home after Quebec dike declared safe

MONT-LAURIER, Que. - Authorities say work carried out by government engineers has stabilized a dike northwest of Montreal that was at risk of bursting. With the Morier dike in the Laurentians region d...

Dec 14, 2023

Unfinished business, threat to progressive policies driving Trudeau to run again

OTTAWA - If there is a walk in the snow coming for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this winter, it won't have anything to do with reflecting on his future. It also won't come as the result of being push...

Dec 14, 2023

Conservative MP Michael Chong granted standing in inquiry on foreign interference

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong has been granted full standing to participate in the public inquiry into foreign inference in recent Canadian elections. Marie-Jose Hogue, who heads the commissi...

Dec 14, 2023

'He had the best smile': Mom of alleged Kenneth Law victim mourns son, wants answers

Kim Prosser was angry and consumed by grief when she learned that her son was one of the alleged victims of an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances to people who took their own lives. Now,...

Dec 14, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Trucker who caused Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada

A federal judge has dismissed applications from the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and was fighting deportation back to India. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was s...

Dec 14, 2023

Explaining Quebec's new French requirement for out-of-province university students

MONTREAL - Not only is Quebec hiking annual tuition for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities to $12,000, the government will also require that 80 per cent of them graduate wit...

Dec 14, 2023

Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes

OTTAWA - Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school ...

Dec 14, 2023

New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu welcome second baby girl

TORONTO - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, are the proud parents of their second baby girl. Party officials say the baby is healthy and doing well, as is her mother. The bab...

Dec 14, 2023