Canada

COVID, commerce, climate, conflict: PM Trudeau enters G7 summit like no other

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will on Friday begin to meet with counterparts from the world's most powerful democracies at the G7 Leaders' Summit to discuss overcoming COVID-19 and its econom...

Jun 9, 2021

NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide

OTTAWA - New Democrats are calling on the federal government to recognize what happened at residential schools as genocide. In a motion to be tabled in the House of Commons tomorrow, NDP MP Leah Gazan...

Jun 9, 2021

Virtual parade plan announced, marshal named for scaled-down Calgary Stampede

CALGARY - There will be a parade to launch the upcoming Calgary Stampede, but it won't include hundreds of thousands of fans lining the city's downtown streets. Stampede officials announced Wednesday ...

Jun 9, 2021

No winner in Tuesday’s $70-million Lotto Max jackpot

The $70 million Lotto Max jackpot is still unclaimed, with no winner in Tuesday night's draw.However, 28 of the 50 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million were won. The majority were sold in Ontario, with 14 ...

Jun 9, 2021

Feds to lift 14-day quarantine requirement for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers

OTTAWA - The federal government is set to announce today that fully vaccinated Canadian travellers will no longer need to spend 14 days in quarantine upon arriving home. A federal source familiar with...

Jun 9, 2021

Mourning London attack victims, "Canada's Got Talent" returns: In The News for June 9

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 June 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Jun 9, 2021

"I just had to try to help," says nurse who tried to save victims of London attack

Miranda Campbell and her family were driving home Sunday night when they pulled up to a line of cars stopped at a green light. Drivers were coming out of their vehicles, talking on their cellphones. M...

Jun 9, 2021

Federal targeting of Muslim charities amounts to prejudice: civil liberties coalition

OTTAWA - A national civil liberties coalition says a secretive division of the Canada Revenue Agency is unfairly targeting Muslim charities for audits based on flimsy reasoning, amounting to discrimin...

Jun 9, 2021

Military's failure on sexual misconduct feels like 'existential threat': HR officer

OTTAWA - The senior officer responsible for human resources in the Canadian Armed Forces says the military's repeated failure to address sexual misconduct in the ranks over the years has led to what f...

Jun 9, 2021

Flags fly at half-mast on Ontario government buildings for slain London, Ont., family

LONDON, Ont. - Flags are flying at half-mast on Ontario government buildings this morning in honour of five members of a Muslim family who were run down in what police describe as an intentional act o...

Jun 9, 2021