Canada

Budget officer suggests feds' foreign homeowner tax to yield less than Liberals plan

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is estimating that a new federal tax on vacant, foreign-owned properties may not bring in as much as the Liberals hope. The one-per-cent tax was to take effec...

Jan 31, 2022

Ontario, Quebec begin easing COVID-19 restrictions as schools reopen in the Maritimes

Canada's most populous provinces are easing some COVID-19 restrictions today, while students head back to classrooms in two Maritime provinces. Ontario and Quebec have reported declines in hospitaliza...

Jan 31, 2022

Calling the Ottawa protests 'peaceful' downplays non-violent dangers, critics say

Police haven't reported any physical violence at the ongoing Ottawa rally against vaccine mandates and other government-imposed COVID-19 restrictions, but critics warn that conflating the absence of b...

Jan 31, 2022

Trial to start for teen charged in 2020 hit-and-run death of Calgary police officer

CALGARY - A trial for the 19-year-old man charged with first-degree murder in the hit-and-run death of a Calgary police officer just over a year ago is scheduled to begin today. The teen, who cannot b...

Jan 31, 2022

Alberta premier says truckers' border blockade violates traffic laws and must end

COUTTS, Alta. - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a truck convoy that's blockaded a highway at a busy U.S. border crossing as part of a protest against vaccine mandates violates the province's Traffic...

Sheldon Spackman Jan 30, 2022

Protesters show no sign of rolling off as Ottawa residents brace for more disruption

OTTAWA - Many of the horn-honking demonstrators who brought Ottawa to a near standstill showed no signs of budging Sunday as parliamentarians, businesses and school administrators were left wondering ...

Jan 30, 2022

Trudeau seeks NDP, Bloc support to prevent Conservative 'obstructionism'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is counting on the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP to help his minority Liberal government get things done in the face of what he anticipates will be systematic obstr...

Jan 30, 2022

Quebec Premier announces candidate for upcoming byelection in Marie-Victorin riding

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault has named the woman who will carry his party's banner during a pending byelection in a Montreal-area riding. He says Shirley Dorismond will represent the Coal...

Jan 30, 2022

'The devil is definitely in the details': How fuel could have entered Iqaluit's water

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit resident Jenny Ell says she couldn't believe it when she turned on her tap a couple of weeks ago and smelled fuel for the second time in a matter of months. Ell, who is preg...

Jan 30, 2022

After reflecting on two election defeats, B.C. Liberals get ready to elect new leader

VICTORIA - A new leader will be chosen by British Columbia's Liberals on Saturday after a months-long campaign that often focused on renewal and a new course for a party that has lost successive elect...

Jan 30, 2022