Canada

As pandemic business loan repayment deadline looms, calls for extending deadline grow

OTTAWA - New Democrats and a business group are calling on the federal government to extend the deadline for small businesses to repay loans they received from a pandemic support program. The Canada E...

Jul 11, 2023

Green Leader Elizabeth May home after hospitalization due to overwork: statement

OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's husband says she is home after spending a few days in hospital for overwork, fatigue and stress. John Kidder says in a statement posted to May's website tha...

Jul 11, 2023

Feds offer additional money to disaster response groups as climate change worsens

OTTAWA - Canadian humanitarian groups that need to deploy on a moment's notice when disasters strike will receive new funding from Ottawa to ensure they are ready when they are needed. The Canadian Re...

Jul 11, 2023

Southbound surges of U.S. agents causing delays, 'disarray' at Canada-U.S. border

WASHINGTON - Members of Congress are growing concerned about what they say is a shortage of agents on the southern side of the Canada-U.S. border. New York Democrat Rep. Brian Higgins says Customs and...

Jul 11, 2023

In the news today: Trudeau at NATO summit, new announcement from ethics watchdog

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Canada lags behind allies as NATO plans to increase defence spending targets Pr...

Jul 11, 2023

Canada lags behind allies as NATO plans to increase defence spending targets

VILNIUS, Lithuania - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has made no secret of the fact that he wants more from member nations at this year's leaders' summit. Exactly how much more is still a matt...

Jul 11, 2023

'Seeing is believing': VR project immerses viewers in climate change on Yukon island

HERSCHEL ISLAND, YUKON - Surrounded by chirping birds, buzzing mosquitoes and waves gently lapping on the shore, viewers travel through time, witnessing a permafrost thaw slump, rising floodwaters and...

Jul 11, 2023

First Nations chiefs gather in Halifax to hear from new interim chief after ousting

HALIFAX - Hundreds of Indigenous leaders are gathering today in Halifax for the start of the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly, where they will hear from their new interim national chi...

Jul 11, 2023

Corporate ethics czar starting human-rights probes around Canadian imports from China

Ottawa's corporate-ethics watchdog is set to announce multiple investigations into whether Canadian companies are importing products made through human-rights abuses in China, a move advocates have so...

Jul 11, 2023

Staff at lodge for LNG workers approve strike, potentially disrupting Kitimat project

KITIMAT, B.C. - Employees at a lodge housing workers for LNG Canada's gas facility in Kitimat, B.C., have authorized strike action, potentially disrupting construction of the massive project. The unio...

Jul 10, 2023