Canada

Quebec police can refuse to talk to and share notes with watchdog: Court of Appeal

MONTREAL - Quebec's highest court says police officers have the right to remain silent during investigations by the province's police watchdog. In a decision Tuesday, the Court of Appeal sided with th...

May 02, 2024

Lawyer says Surrey had pathway to keep RCMP but made 'no effort' to meet conditions

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey was given a pathway to retain the RCMP as its police force, but "made no effort at all" to meet conditions to do so. Trev...

May 02, 2024

Quesnel, B.C., censures mayor, saying his actions jeopardize Indigenous relations

QUESNEL, B.C. - Councillors in Quesnel, B.C., have voted unanimously to censure their mayor, saying his actions related to a book denying the harms of Canada's residential school system jeopardize the...

May 02, 2024

Quebec premier says pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill 'has to be dismantled'

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault has called on the police to dismantle the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the lower field of McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal. His commen...

May 02, 2024

Police order B.C. woman who praised Hamas not to protest for 5 months, says her group

VANCOUVER - A pro-Palestinian activist group says its international co-ordinator, who was arrested in a Vancouver hate-crime investigation, was released with an order not to attend any protests for th...

May 02, 2024

Two more women file suits alleging sexual assault by Newfoundland police officer

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Two more women have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted by an on-duty member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who offered them rides home from a night of drin...

May 02, 2024

Environmental groups criticize government walk-back on pollution impact assessment

OTTAWA - Environmental groups are criticizing the Liberal government's planned amendments to the federal Impact Assessment Act. The groups said in a letter to cabinet ministers today that Ottawa isn't...

May 02, 2024

Latest national emissions report shows signs of progress toward Canada's 2030 goal

OTTAWA - Canada's latest greenhouse-gas emissions report shows the country making progress toward meeting its next target in 2030, but there is still a very long way to go. The 2022 report published t...

May 02, 2024

With foreign meddling inquiry to release first report Friday, what do we know so far?

OTTAWA - On Friday, Canadians may get long-awaited answers about the integrity of the country's last two elections, which was thrown into question last year as reports of attempted foreign interferenc...

May 02, 2024

Vets Affairs 'March holidays' post: 'In trying to be apolitical we became political'

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs staff found themselves working over the Easter weekend, trying to explain why one of the department's social media posts didn't actually mention the holiday. Instead, the pos...

May 02, 2024