Canada

Feds ramp up efforts to help residents of Hong Kong immigrate to, stay in Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government is moving forward on efforts to help citizens of Hong Kong remain in Canada rather than return home amid China's clampdown on democracy.One of several new immigration p...

Feb 4, 2021

Federal Conservatives call for special Commons study of Canada-U.S. relations

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling for a special House of Commons committee devoted to Canada-U.S. relations. They'll advance the idea during a debate in the House of Commons today devoted...

Feb 4, 2021

Foreign interference by Saudi Arabia, China, Rwanda hurts democracy: report

OTTAWA - A groundbreaking new report details how countries such as Saudi Arabia, China and Rwanda are meddling in democratic countries, including Canada, to harass, threaten and commit violence agains...

Feb 4, 2021

Ontario to reopen most schools on Monday, Toronto, Peel, York on Feb. 16

TORONTO - Students in Ontario regions hit hard by COVID-19 will begin returning to physical classrooms next week as the province said new infections were gradually declining and additional measures ha...

Feb 3, 2021

Senate committee accepts assisted-dying bill but amendments still to come

OTTAWA - A Senate committee has accepted without amendment a bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying.But the legal and constitutional affairs committee breezed through clause-by-clause st...

Feb 3, 2021

Judge denies CSIS request to collect foreign intelligence

OTTAWA - A court has put the brakes on a Canadian Security Intelligence Service request to collect foreign information, ruling a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service's legal mandate. ...

Feb 3, 2021

Fear that delayed second COVID-19 vaccine dose could lead to new variants 'realistic'

MONTREAL - Experts say delaying the second dose of some COVID-19 vaccines could lead to the emergence of new variants of the virus - but there's no sign it has happened yet. "It's a theoretical, reali...

Feb 3, 2021

Lawyers try to find holes in story of man accused of killing woman in Edmonton hotel

EDMONTON - Crown prosecutors continue to look for inconsistencies in what an Ontario man says he told others on the morning he found a woman's bloody body in his Edmonton hotel room bathtub. Bradley B...

Feb 3, 2021

Proud Boys and other extreme right-wing groups among 13 added to Canada's terror list

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is adding the Proud Boys and three other extreme right-wing groups to its list of terrorist organizations to address the sort of neo-fascism and white nationalism that ...

Feb 3, 2021

Jason Kenney defends Rockies coal policy, calls old protections a 'dead letter'

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Albertans have no cause to worry over his government quietly throwing out a coal policy that protected the Rocky Mountains for more than four decades."No r...

Feb 3, 2021