Canada

Feds 'looking into' alleged bullying by RCMP employee facing security charges

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is looking into allegations the RCMP brushed off warnings about a senior director who was later arrested on national-...

Aug 31, 2020

Trudeau calls out vandals who toppled Montreal's Macdonald statue

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is denouncing the vandals who toppled and defaced a Montreal statue of the first prime minister of Canada, John A. Macdonald, over the weekend. Trudeau to...

Aug 31, 2020

Alberta woman pleads guilty to manslaughter in partner's shooting death

EDMONTON - An Alberta woman who was granted a new trial by the Supreme Court of Canada has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal shooting of her domestic partner. Deborah Doonanco, who is 58,&nb...

Aug 31, 2020

Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes, future flooding risk: research

CALGARY - Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research. "Unsurprisingly, we found those...

Aug 31, 2020

N.B. Liberals promise to suspend use of industrial herbicide on Crown land

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers is promising to suspend the provincial government's use of an industrial weed killer on Crown land for four years. Campaigning in Rogersville, ...

Aug 31, 2020

Canada signs deal with Novovax to get 76 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

OTTAWA - The federal government has a deal with a third vaccine developer to get access to an experimental COVID-19 vaccine as early as next spring. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Montreal t...

Aug 31, 2020

Business rent-aid program to fall well short of budget, PBO projects

OTTAWA - A federal spending watchdog says a program aiming to providing rent relief to small and medium-sized businesses will cost just under $1 billion this fiscal year. The report this morning from ...

Aug 31, 2020

The WE papers and a medical profession gender pay gap: In The News for Aug. 31

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 Aug. 31. What we are watching in Canada ... OT...

Aug 31, 2020

From masks to cohorting, a guide to back-to-school rules across the country

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...

Aug 31, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Aug. 31

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. EDT on Aug. 31, 2020: There are 127,940 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 62,352 confirmed (including 5,758 deaths, 55,300 r...

Aug 31, 2020