Canada

Some Quebec overnight camps are being forced to close following COVID-19 outbreaks

MONTREAL - An association representing Quebec summer camps says at least three overnight camps have temporarily shut down following COVID-19 outbreaks, mostly among counsellors. Association des camps ...

Jul 5, 2022

Court martial planned for soldier who criticized vaccine mandate, led march to Ottawa

OTTAWA - The Canadian soldier charged with speaking against federal vaccine mandates while wearing his uniform and who recently led a march to Ottawa is now facing a court martial. Warrant Officer Jam...

Jul 5, 2022

Canada first ally to ratify NATO membership bids from Sweden, Finland

OTTAWA - Canada has become the first country to ratify Sweden and Finland's request to join NATO, bringing the two countries closer to full membership. The Prime Minister's Office says Justin Trudeau ...

Jul 5, 2022

Familiar outrage greets deadly Illinois shooting; weapon was legally purchased: mayor

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. - The mayor of the Chicago suburb scarred by America's latest mass shooting says she was once the alleged gunman's Cub Scout pack leader. Nancy Rotering tells CNN that she expects ...

Jul 5, 2022

More than half of Canada's AstraZeneca vaccine doses expired, will be thrown out

OTTAWA - Canada is about to toss more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because it couldn't find any takers for it either in or outside of Canada. A statement from Heal...

Jul 5, 2022

Freedom Convoy organizer in court and AFN Assembly: In The News for July 5, 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 Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 ... What we are watchi...

Jul 5, 2022

Assembly of First Nations meets as suspended chief fights for financial audit

VANCOUVER - The annual gathering of the Assembly of First Nations is being held this week in Vancouver under a cloud of criticism from its national chief, who has been suspended and denied entry to th...

Jul 5, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' organizer Tamara Lich expected to have bail hearing today

OTTAWA - Tamara Lich, an organizer of the "Freedom Convoy," is set to appear in an Ottawa court today for a bail hearing after being arrested last week for allegedly breaching one of her bail conditio...

Jul 5, 2022

Canadians donated more than $44M to Liberal, Conservative parties in 2021

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada raised the most money of any federal party in 2021, bringing in $26.4 million in donations during a tumultuous year that ended with an election loss and specu...

Jul 4, 2022

Irving Abella, historian who wrote on Canada's refusal of Jewish refugees, dead at 82

Historian Irving Abella, the co-author of a seminal book on the Canadian government's refusal to accept Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust, has died. Abella died on Sunday, the day after his 82nd b...

Jul 4, 2022