Canada

COVID-19 activity showing early signs that it may be increasing, new PHAC data says

COVID-19 infections may be slowly starting to rise again in Canada, new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) suggests. "There are signs of continued fluctuations in some COVID-19 activi...

Aug 15, 2023

Georgia indictment brings total Trump charges to 91, with prospect of televised trial

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's defiant march deeper into infamy barely broke stride Tuesday after a grand jury in Georgia finally handed up another long-awaited indictment of the former president - his f...

Aug 15, 2023

RCMP back at B.C. logging blockades after high court confirmed protester's acquittal

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Mounties are back enforcing an injunction against anti-logging protesters on Vancouver Island less than a week after the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the acquittal of a prot...

Aug 15, 2023

Military members can now take sexual misconduct complaints to human rights commission

OTTAWA - Members of the military now have the option to bypass the Canadian Armed Forces grievance process and taking complaints of sexual misconduct, harassment or discrimination to a third party. Th...

Aug 15, 2023

Federal Liberals have gone more than six months without appointing ethics watchdog

OTTAWA - It's now been more than six months since Canada has had a federal ethics watchdog. Mario Dion retired in February after serving as the last permanent ethics and conflict-of-interest commissio...

Aug 15, 2023

17 people sent to hospital after alleged bear spray attack at Quebec vacation camp

MONTREAL - Seventeen people were sent to hospital after they were allegedly attacked with bear spray at a vacation camp northeast of Montreal. Provincial police spokeswoman Sgt. lose Cossette says fiv...

Aug 15, 2023

Canadian corporate ethics czar launches China forced-labour probe into Ralph Lauren

Ottawa's corporate-ethics watchdog has announced an investigation into fashion company Ralph Lauren over the alleged use of forced labour in its supply chains. Sheri Meyerhoffer, who is the Canadian O...

Aug 15, 2023

Homeless, impoverished at risk during B.C. heat wave, advocates warn

VANCOUVER - An outreach team for the Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver has been working in the city's Downtown Eastside to ensure people are aware and are prepared to cope with the latest heat spike a...

Aug 15, 2023

In the news today: Wildfires in NWT, heatwave in B.C. breaks records

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Soldiers set to help fight wildfires in N.W.T. Members of the Canadian Armed Fo...

Aug 15, 2023

Quebecers no longer seeing doctor-assisted deaths as exceptional, says oversight body

MONTREAL - As the frequency of medical aid in dying continues to rise in Quebec, the head of the independent body that monitors the practice in the province says he worries doctor-assisted deaths are ...

Aug 15, 2023