Canada

Little room for feds to issue long-term debt unless central bank steps in: documents

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show the Liberals were told earlier this year that the government's bid to lock in low interest rates on federal debt could run into problems unless the Bank of Canad...

Oct 6, 2021

Trudeau says Tofino trip on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation a 'mistake'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he regrets the mistake of travelling to British Columbia to join his vacationing family on a day meant to honour Indigenous survivors of Canada's residentia...

Oct 6, 2021

Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine

OTTAWA - U.S. drugmaker Moderna is asking Health Canada to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company submitted data on a booster shot that is half the size of the doses used to giv...

Oct 6, 2021

General who wrote reference for sex offender reassigned after outrage over new post

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has removed a senior officer who wrote a reference for a convicted sex offender from his job reviewing ways to eliminate military sexual misconduct. Vice chief of th...

Oct 6, 2021

Emergency health-care summit, NDP postelection priorities : In The News for Oct. 6

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. 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Oct 6, 2021

Seniors advocate to release review of COVID-19 outbreaks at B.C. care facilities

VICTORIA - British Columbia's seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie said last spring the review will examine more than t...

Oct 6, 2021

NDP says errors meant people — including First Nations — were disenfranchised

OTTAWA - The NDP has requested an official inquiry into what it calls "numerous and systemic failures of election officials" in last month's federal election. NDP national director Anne McGrath has wr...

Oct 6, 2021

RCMP officer who shot, killed Nunavut man continues testifying at inquest

GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut - The RCMP officer who shot and killed an armed man in a remote Nunavut community is scheduled to continue his testimony today at a coroner's inquest. Cpl. Ian Crowe fired at 21-ye...

Oct 6, 2021

Trudeau expected to announce all federal workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make good today on his election promise to require all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Trudeau is expected to announce at a news ...

Oct 6, 2021

Singh to tell caucus that Indigenous rights a priority for NDP this Parliament

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is to tell the first meeting of the NDP caucus that pursuing Indigenous rights - including access to clean drinking water - will be a key priority for the party in this Parliame...

Oct 6, 2021