Category Archives: Canada

No plans for royal tour by King Charles in Canada this year as monarch battles cancer
OTTAWA - King Charles will not travel to Canada for his first royal tour as Canada's monarch this year, as he battles cancer. British media reported in December that Buckingham Palace was in the early...
Feb 12, 2024

Canada's effort to restore military talks hinges on Taiwan policy: Chinese ambassador
OTTAWA - China's ambassador to Canada says an effort by Ottawa to restore normal military communication will hit headwinds if the navy sends another ship to the Taiwan Strait. "We want dialogue. But i...
Feb 12, 2024

Conservative motion, backed by NDP, produced $40M in regulatory relief for Bell
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting the idea that his party played a role in granting $40 million in regulatory relief to Bell Media. Conservative and NDP MPs backed a 2022 amen...
Feb 12, 2024

Canadian TV, film, music industries ask MPs for protection against AI
OTTAWA - Canada's actors, directors and musicians are sounding the alarm over artificial intelligence, saying it threatens their livelihood and reputations. Groups representing people who work in TV, ...
Feb 12, 2024

Quebec government says new powers for justices of the peace will reduce court delays
MONTREAL - Quebec's justice minister is giving more responsibility to justices of the peace to free up provincial court judges and reduce delays. Simon Jolin-Barrette says presiding justices of the pe...
Feb 12, 2024

Timeline of police response to five suspicious deaths in Manitoba
CARMAN, Man. - RCMP say three children and two women died in separate but connected events Sunday in and around the town of Carman, southwest of Winnipeg. Police have taken a 29-year-old man into cust...
Feb 12, 2024

Quebec cold case murder suspect chooses not to testify or present defence: lawyers
SAGUENAY, Que. - Lawyers for a Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of a 19-year-old junior college student nearly 24 years ago will not present a defence. Marc-Andr Gren...
Feb 12, 2024

Tory MP in hot water as First Nation demands apology for comments he made in House
OTTAWA - Piapot First Nation is demanding an apology from a Conservative MP after he said First Nations are burning down water treatment plants because they're frustrated with the Liberals. Saskatchew...
Feb 12, 2024

Former military leader Haydn Edmundson takes witness stand in sexual assault trial
OTTAWA - Retired vice admiral Haydn Edmundson is taking the stand in his own defence at his sexual assault trial in Ottawa. Last week, court heard at length from the woman who accuses Edmundson of sex...
Feb 12, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Contract rules disregarded in costly development of ArriveCan: audit
OTTAWA - Auditor general Karen Hogan says the government failed to properly manage the costly development of the much-maligned ArriveCan app. She says in a newly released report that Ottawa disregarde...
Feb 12, 2024