Canada

Chiefs' 'squabble' over leadership diverts AFN focus from real issues: youth leader

VANCOUVER - The national youth council co-chair for the Assembly of First Nations says politics and squabbling around leadership are getting in the way of Indigenous topics that matter most. Rosalie L...

Jul 6, 2022

Surging energy prices harmful to families, should drive green transition: Freeland

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is absolutely concerned with the struggles Canadians are facing as a result of inflation, but insists the current energy crisis is ...

Jul 6, 2022

Soldier James Topp wore uniform while criticizing vaccine mandates to draw attention

OTTAWA - Warrant Officer James Topp says he doesn't believe people would have paid attention if he hadn't donned his uniform to publicly oppose the Canadian military's vaccine requirements. That decis...

Jul 6, 2022

First set of tickets for Pope's mass in Edmonton booked within minutes

EDMONTON - Thousands of tickets for the Pope's open-air mass at Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium were all booked about 15 minutes after they were made available to the public for free. The July 26 mass...

Jul 6, 2022

Ukrainian Canadian Congress calls on Canada to lead effort to oust Russia from G20

OTTAWA - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress wants Russia expelled from the G20. The group's president, Alexandra Chyczij, has written to the prime minister asking him to lead a global campaign to expel R...

Jul 6, 2022

Quebec government lawyer defends police power to randomly stop vehicles

MONTREAL - A Quebec government lawyer is defending the power of police officers to make random traffic stops and is arguing that it's up to police forces to address racial profiling. Michel Dom is mak...

Jul 6, 2022

A chronology of Patrick Brown's political career

A timeline of the ups and downs in Patrick Brown's political career: 1998: elected president of the Ontario PC Youth Association. 2000: elected as city councillor in Barrie, Ont. 2003: re-elected as B...

Jul 6, 2022

Quebec caught between reducing arsenic emissions from factory and preserving 650 jobs

MONTREAL - Quebec's government is facing pressure to address the high levels of arsenic emitted from a copper foundry in a small northwestern city without sacrificing the factory's 650 jobs and the re...

Jul 6, 2022

Women graduates, those with college educations more likely to access CERB: StatCan

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada study finds women post-secondary graduates were more likely to receive the Canada Emergency Response Benefit in 2020 than male graduates. The study also finds that tho...

Jul 6, 2022

Tory leadership candidate disqualified and Yukon heat: In The News for July 6, 2022

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 Wednesday, July 6, 2022 ... What we are watchi...

Jul 6, 2022