Canada

Quebec rights body opens investigation after young girl's clitoris allegedly removed

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission is investigating reports that the province's youth protection services failed to act on a suspected case of child genital mutilation. The commission says in...

May 04, 2023

Supreme Court of Canada won't hear man's appeal in alleged wrongful conviction case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a Quebec man seeking compensation over imprisonment for murders he says he did not commit. Yves Plamondon spent almost 28 years behind ...

May 04, 2023

"Canada in my blood': Charles's coronation follows half century of Canadian visits

LONDON - Last year, while still Prince of Wales, King Charles III opened a meeting of Commonwealth heads of government in Rwanda's capital of Kigali and pitched Canada as an example for the world to f...

May 04, 2023

Canada summons Chinese ambassador over alleged threats to Tory MP Michael Chong

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is summoning China's ambassador over allegations by Canada's spy agency that a Chinese diplomat in Toronto was involved in a plot to intimidate a Conservative MP and hi...

May 04, 2023

Efforts resuming to repatriate five missing Canadians from Syria, lawyer says

OTTAWA - A lawyer working to repatriate Canadians from detention in Syria says there is fresh word about two women and three children who had originally been slated to return to Canada last month. Law...

May 04, 2023

In The News for May 4 : Tentative deal reached between CRA, union, ending strike

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 May 4 ... What we are watching in Canada ... T...

May 04, 2023

Research finds some Pacific salmon migration out of sync with food supply

VANCOUVER - Climate change is knocking some Pacific salmon out of alignment with the growth of the ocean plankton they eat to survive, new research says. In the largest data set ever gathered on the t...

May 04, 2023

Canada Revenue Agency, union reach tentative deal, ending strike of 35,000 workers

OTTAWA - The public-sector union representing Canada Revenue Agency employees has struck a tentative deal with the federal government, ending a strike of 35,000 workers just after the tax season wrapp...

May 03, 2023

Google Canada tells Senate Bill C-18 would create unreasonable financial liability

OTTAWA - Google Canada says it would be reasonable to reconsider sharing links to news sites if Bill C-18, the government's Online News Act, becomes law. Richard Gingras, the vice-president of the com...

May 03, 2023

Border officers in Vancouver find cat in parcel from China: SPCA

VANCOUVER - A cat the British Columbia SPCA says was mysteriously found in a parcel from China is now in foster care recovering from its apparent ordeal. The SPCA says in a statement it's unclear how ...

May 03, 2023