Canada

Singh says NDP won't support Liberal bill that would jail, fine CERB fraudsters

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it is irresponsible and wrong-headed for the Liberal government to draft a bill that would fine or imprison people who made fraudulent claims under the Canada Em...

Jun 09, 2020

Humpback whale that thrilled crowds in Montreal reported dead in St. Lawrence

MONTREAL - A whale research group says a wayward humpback whale that had captivated crowds in the Montreal area in recent days appears to have been found dead. The Group for Research and Edu...

Jun 09, 2020

More funding freed up for organizations working on food security

OTTAWA - The federal government is spending more money to help food banks and other community organizations working to increase food security. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced t...

Jun 09, 2020

B.C., Ontario shipyards team up to win multibillion-dollar icebreaker contract

OTTAWA - Canada's sharply divided shipbuilding industry was dealt a surprise this morning as two competing yards announced plans to team up to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new polar i...

Jun 09, 2020

Floyd mourned and U.S. not investigating Prince Andrew; 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 ... --- C...

Jun 09, 2020

Cautious Canadians increasingly wearing masks, fear second wave of COVID: Poll

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are increasingly wearing protective face masks as they emerge from months of isolating at home to curb the spread of COVID-19. And it suggests that fear of a sec...

Jun 09, 2020

Hubert Gagnon, who played Homer Simpson in Quebec version of show, dies at 73

MONTREAL - For generations of Quebec viewers, the bumbling, doughnut-loving cartoon dad Homer Simpson didn't speak with the American accent of voice actor Dan Castellaneta, but rather the&nb...

Jun 08, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:15 p.m. on June 8, 2020: There are 96,244 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 53,047 confirmed (includ...

Jun 08, 2020

RCMP burnout may be adding to Nunavut policing problems: territory's top cop

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The head of the RCMP in Nunavut says she's trying to find ways to bring police and Inuit together. But Chief Supt. Amanda Jones says officer burnout in small detachments with big so...

Jun 08, 2020

Two Alberta Mounties charged in shooting death of man in car

EDMONTON - Two RCMP officers have been charged in the shooting death of a 31-year-old man in northern Alberta almost two years ago.Cpl. Randy Stenger and Const. Jessica Brown of the Whitecourt RCMP de...

Jun 08, 2020