Canada

'Race discrimination': Indigenous Quebec man who lived on reserve denied insurance

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission has ruled that an Indigenous Quebec man who was denied car insurance because he lived on a reserve was the victim of race discrimination. Alexis Wawanoloath...

Nov 03, 2022

New Inuit Research Network aims to support Inuit self-determination in research

OTTAWA - The federal government and an organization representing Inuit in Canada have announced $6.4 million in funding to establish an Inuit Research Network. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami says the funding...

Nov 03, 2022

Iqaluit RCMP investigating reports of pins found in Halloween candy

IQALUIT, Nunavut - RCMP are investigating after receiving two complaints that pins were found in children's Halloween candy in Iqaluit. Police say after receiving the first complaint Wednesday, they a...

Nov 03, 2022

Most funds raised for 'Freedom Convoy' protest were returned or confiscated

OTTAWA - The public inquiry into the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act says most of the millions of dollars raised by the "Freedom Convoy" ended up in an escrow account or returne...

Nov 03, 2022

Québec solidaire to swear oath to King, vows to table bill to make pledge optional

MONTREAL - The 11 recently elected members of Qubec solidaire are no longer refusing to swear an oath of office to King Charles III. Spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois says party members will take the oa...

Nov 03, 2022

Fiscal update, trucker testimony at Emergencies Act inquiry : In The News for Nov. 3

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. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Nov 03, 2022

Fall mini-budget aims to help Canada compete with U.S. clean energy investments

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is to table her mid-year budget update in the House of Commons today focused heavily on driving investment to Canada's clean energy industries in response t...

Nov 03, 2022

Fertilizer greenhouse gas cuts may take longer than Ottawa wants, farm groups say

The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer use by 30 per cent kicked up more dust than a tractor on a grid road when it was first announced by the federal Liberal government last su...

Nov 03, 2022

Canadian War Museum oral history project examines war's aftermath

HALIFAX - The pride in Blanche Bennett's voice was evident as she vividly recounted the day 80 years ago when she volunteered to serve in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Bennett, who turns 100 on Nov...

Nov 03, 2022

Republican wave could prove emboldening for left-leaning Democrats on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON - Their arrival atop a cresting "blue wave" of Democrats in 2018, two years into the caustic presidency of Donald Trump, heralded a bold new era of young, diverse and left-leaning political...

Nov 03, 2022