Category Archives: Canada
RCMP rolls out body-worn cameras for officers nationally
OTTAWA - The RCMP will begin its rollout of body-worn cameras for RCMP officers across the country next week. It expects deployment of more than 10,000 cameras to be finished in the next 12 to 18 mont...
Nov 14, 2024
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of man convicted in Alberta hunters' deaths
OTTAWA - Canada's top court has declined to hear the appeal of one of two men found guilty in the fatal shooting of two Mtis hunters in eastern Alberta. As is usual, the Supreme Court did not give rea...
Nov 14, 2024
Quebec orders audits at 17 schools after complaints over secularism non-compliance
MONTREAL - Quebec Education Minister Bernard Drainville says his department will investigate complaints at 17 schools across the province where it is alleged that state secularism is not being respect...
Nov 14, 2024
NDP expected to unveil campaign pledge to remove GST on internet, heat, diapers, more
OTTAWA - With the cost of living playing a central role in provincial elections across Canada and in the U.S. presidential race, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is set to unveil a pre-campaign policy plank f...
Nov 14, 2024
Police, firefighters respond to train derailment near Montreal; no injuries reported
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Police are responding to a derailment at a train yard in Longueuil, Que., on Montreal's South Shore. Longueuil police say it does not initially appear anyone was hurt, but fire offic...
Nov 14, 2024
In the news today: Rent inflation to slow, Desjardins predicts
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Rent inflation to slow, Desjardins predicts The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slo...
Nov 14, 2024
Rent inflation to slow in the next few years, Desjardins predicts
OTTAWA - The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slow in the coming years as the government's plan to cut back immigration numbers takes hold, a new report from Desjardins says....
Nov 14, 2024
Trudeau off to APEC in Peru, G20 summit in Brazil as peer nations brace for Trump
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave this afternoon for the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, followed by the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Both summits aim to improve the multilate...
Nov 14, 2024
Energy experts think Donald Trump will make tariff exemptions for Canadian oil
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts...
Nov 14, 2024
Class-action alleges abuse, cultural devastation at Canadian Indigenous group homes
VANCOUVER - A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, se...
Nov 14, 2024