Canada

Facebook intimidating Canadians with threats to pull news from platform: Ottawa

OTTAWA - Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez accused Meta on Thursday of trying to intimidate Canadians with threats of pulling news content from its Facebook platform, following the adoption of...

Dec 15, 2022

Woman and adult granddaughter fatally shot inside Montreal apartment

Montreal police say a woman and her adult granddaughter were victims of a double homicide early this morning. A call to 911 reporting gunshots was made at about 2:40 a.m., and officers found the two w...

Dec 15, 2022

Canada's climate action plan underfunded, unclear regarding top risks: report

OTTAWA - A report says Canada's climate adaptation strategy is underfunded and does not clearly align its goals with the country's top climate change risks. The Canadian Climate Institute put out the ...

Dec 15, 2022

Quebec court says Canadian Pacific Railway not liable in Lac-Mégantic train crash

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge says Canadian Pacific Railway is not liable in the 2013 Lac-Mgantic, Que., railway disaster that killed 47 people. Justice Martin Bureau ruled Wednesday that t...

Dec 15, 2022

Canada-made radar satellite component to be used in global surface water survey

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A piece of Canadian radar technology will play a key role in a satellite mission scheduled to launch Friday that aims to study almost all of the Earth's water surfaces. The Surface W...

Dec 15, 2022

Six-month COVID-19 vaccine delay would have cost $156B: study

A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates Canada would have lost $156 billion in economic activity in 2021 had COVID-19 vaccines been rolled out six months later than they were. That would have b...

Dec 15, 2022

In The News for Dec. 15 : Canada's banking regulator to set mortgage stress test

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 Dec. 15 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Dec 15, 2022

Environment ministers try to get Montreal biodiversity talks on track in last days

MONTREAL - Environment ministers from around the world are gathering in Montreal for the last few days of a conference aimed at preserving what's left of the planet's biodiversity. Talks at COP15 hit ...

Dec 15, 2022

Financial intelligence agency tracking signs of homegrown terrorism financing

OTTAWA - Efforts by Canada's financial intelligence agency over the last three years uncovered activity related to homegrown terrorism, the bankrolling of international terrorist groups and attempts b...

Dec 15, 2022

'Prey-switching' blamed for death of Toronto woman mauled by coyotes 13 years ago

HALIFAX - A new and unusual theory has emerged about the coyotes that killed a young Toronto woman on a Nova Scotia hiking trail 13 years ago. Researchers say that on Oct. 27, 2009, when singer-songwr...

Dec 15, 2022