Canada

N.S. court victory may bring lasting improvement to lives of people with disabilities

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia advocacy group for people with disabilities says its landmark court victory is an opportunity to compel reforms and funding that will improve their lives after decades of mistr...

Oct 8, 2021

Civil rights lawyer wants Quebec permit system for doctors declared unconstitutional

Montreal-based civil rights lawyer Julius Grey says he will ask a judge to suspend Quebec's system for determining how many family doctors can practise in a specific region. The move comes after Healt...

Oct 8, 2021

RCMP union will support Mounties who shun COVID-19 vaccination despite federal order

OTTAWA - The union representing RCMP officers says it will support members' choice "to be vaccinated or not" against COVID-19 following a federal order that Mounties be immunized. The government annou...

Oct 8, 2021

Public health measures working, reason for optimism in fight against fourth wave: Tam

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer has shot a dose of optimism into the country's fight against the fourth wave of COVID-19. Dr. Theresa Tam says the efforts made to slow the spread where t...

Oct 8, 2021

Elections Canada confirms Bloc win over Tories in Trois-Rivières after recount

OTTAWA - The Bloc Qubcois is being confirmed as the winner of the Quebec riding of Trois-Rivires after a judicial recount. Elections Canada says the Bloc beat the Conservatives by 83 votes, after vote...

Oct 8, 2021

New Brunswick coroner's jury says 2020 police killing of Rodney Levi was a homicide

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - A coroner's jury in New Brunswick examining the 2020 fatal police shooting of Rodney Levi has ruled his death a homicide. The 48-year-old man from the Metepenagiag First Nation was s...

Oct 8, 2021

Sept. job numbers and Rocky Mountain coal mining: In The News for Oct. 8

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 Oct. 8 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Oct 8, 2021

Jury to deliberate in Nunavut shooting inquest; Mountie also faces assault charge

GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - A jury in a coroner's inquest is to start deliberations today in a fatal shooting by a Nunavut RCMP officer who also faces an assault charge in another case. Cpl. Ian Crowe was c...

Oct 8, 2021

'I can't back down' on COVID-19 vaccine message, says threatened B.C. politician

VANCOUVER - Politicians accustomed to sparring in British Columbia's legislature have joined forces outside the house to push for higher vaccination rates in the north, but a longtime member of the Op...

Oct 8, 2021

Allowing Rocky Mountain coal lease transfers during debate sends wrong signal: group

EDMONTON - An environmental group says an exchange of coal exploration lease applications in Alberta's Rocky Mountains suggests mining companies expect to be able to go ahead with their plans despite ...

Oct 8, 2021