Canada

The number of Mexican asylum seekers in Canada has increased dramatically

MONTREAL - Canada has seen a spike in the number of Mexicans seeking asylum here this year, with the vast majority of them coming to Montreal. They say they are fleeing Mexico in search of jobs and sa...

Nov 04, 2022

Canadians begin to receive temporary boost to GST rebate today

OTTAWA - Canadians who are eligible for the GST rebate can expect to receive an additional lump-sum payment as early as today. A bill introduced by the Liberal government to temporarily double the reb...

Nov 04, 2022

Canada sanctions Haitian officials as MPs told gangs are wreaking ‘civil war

Ottawa is sanctioning at least two senior Haitian officials for their alleged support of gangs in the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly has announced sanctions in lockstep with the U.S. fo...

Nov 04, 2022

Court says conditional sentence curbs are constitutional in Indigenous case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of provisions that prevent an offender from avoiding jail by serving their sentence in the community, finding no evidence they had...

Nov 04, 2022

Latest job numbers, Lich back at Emergencies Act inquiry : In The News for Nov. 4

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 Nov. 4 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Nov 04, 2022

Some Quebec colleges say Ottawa denies 80 to 90 per cent of study permits from Africa

MONTREAL - Some Quebec junior colleges say 80 to 90 per cent of the international students they've accepted from Africa are being refused study permits by the federal government, jeopardizing their ab...

Nov 04, 2022

Special tribunal among options to probe crimes linked to unmarked graves: official

OTTAWA - An independent official appointed to help communities investigate unmarked graves at former residential school sites says she is exploring the idea of whether a special tribunal should prosec...

Nov 04, 2022

'Political hot potato': residents of Hay River, N.W.T. urge dredging in key waterway

HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - Aaron Campbell and his brother were boating from Yellowknife to Hay River, N.W.T., earlier this fall when they got stuck on a sandbar in the shallow waters of Great Slave Lake near...

Nov 04, 2022

Dig at B.C. shopping mall reveals Indigenous artifacts, and evolution of archeology

Time changes everything - including the way archeology works. It's a point illustrated by the recent discovery of Indigenous artifacts at the site of a shopping mall renovation in Williams Lake in cen...

Nov 04, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' leader Tamara Lich to be cross-examined at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - Prominent "Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich is expected to continue her testimony today at the public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act. She is to face cro...

Nov 04, 2022