Canada

Ottawa considering a new ombudsperson to field Canadian concerns about online harms

OTTAWA - The federal government's evolving plan to help protect Canadians from harm online could include a new ombudsperson to field public concerns and a regulator that would oversee the conduct of i...

Feb 21, 2024

Trudeau set to make housing announcement in Edmonton

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to make a housing announcement in Edmonton today. Trudeau is expected to be joined by Liberal cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault, who represents an Edm...

Feb 21, 2024

Saskatchewan Premier Moe in India amid country's diplomatic tensions with Ottawa

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is in India to promote trade despite heightened tensions between Canada and the overseas country. Moe says he wants to maintain and expand markets that thousand...

Feb 20, 2024

It's 'obvious' that rules weren't followed with ArriveCan development, Trudeau says

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's "obvious" contracting rules weren't followed during the development of the controversial ArriveCan app. Trudeau says the app was developed at the st...

Feb 20, 2024

RCMP see no foreign interference as two teenagers charged over Surrey shooting

SURREY, B.C. - RCMP say two teenagers have been charged over a shooting at a home in Surrey, B.C., and investigators have found no links to foreign interference. A group advocating for Sikh independen...

Feb 20, 2024

Two people shot in north Toronto were attacked 'indiscriminately': police

TORONTO - Two people who were shot at the same intersection in a northwest Toronto neighbourhood in less than a day were innocent victims who were attacked "indiscriminately," police said Tuesday. Inv...

Feb 20, 2024

Canada nixes oral argument at world court over Israel's occupation of West Bank, Gaza

OTTAWA - Canada has nixed plans to make oral arguments at the International Court of Justice about Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories. The UN General Assembly has asked the court for a...

Feb 20, 2024

Federal government scales back carbon price rebates for small businesses

OTTAWA - The federal government is cutting the amount of money small- and medium-sized businesses will be given from carbon pricing revenues so it can increase the amount of money rebated to rural fam...

Feb 20, 2024

RCMP ask prosecutors to consider charge in B.C. crane collapse that killed 5

KELOWNA, B.C. - Mounties say they have asked prosecutors to consider charges in the collapse of a construction crane that killed five people in Kelowna, B.C., in June 2021. Police say a report has bee...

Feb 20, 2024

Jury begins deliberating fate of man charged with murdering Quebec student in 2000

SAGUENAY, Que. - Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of a Quebec man charged with the first-degree murder and sexual assault of 19-year-old junior college student Guylaine Potvin in 2000. Su...

Feb 20, 2024