Canada

StatCan to release latest 2021 census data on immigration, religious affiliation

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada plans to provide an updated look at immigration data and our ethno-cultural and religious diversity today in new round of data from the 2021 census. The release is expected ...

Oct 26, 2022

Mountie wears 'thin blue line' patch while escorting man convicted of hate crime

REGINA - A symbol that has been associated with white nationalist movements was recently worn by a Saskatchewan Mountie while escorting an inmate who had just been sentenced for hate speech. The offic...

Oct 26, 2022

Emergencies Act inquiry hearing from senior police officers

OTTAWA - Senior police members are to continue their testimony this morning at the federal inquiry into the government's use of the Emergencies Act. Supt. Robert Bernier, who oversaw the Ottawa police...

Oct 26, 2022

African Union visit could shape Canada strategy

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets today with African Union commissioner Moussa Faki. The visit was promised just before the COVID-19 pandemic, and will focus on how Canada can work with Afr...

Oct 26, 2022

Appeal filed against Alberta Review Board ruling that Matthew de Grood still a risk

EDMONTON - A lawyer for a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed five young people at a Calgary house party is appealing a determination that he remains "a significant risk to public safety" and wants h...

Oct 25, 2022

Canadians must choose between hobbies and children's lives: gun-control group

OTTAWA - An umbrella group of gun-control advocates says any exceptions to the federal handgun freeze should be very narrowly defined. Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for Gun Control told the House of C...

Oct 25, 2022

Minister rejects Rogers-Shaw deal, sets conditions for Freedom Mobile sale

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says he will not approve the proposed deal between Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc., though he left the door open to a revi...

Oct 25, 2022

Judge in Quebec racial profiling case orders end to random traffic stops

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has issued a major racial profiling ruling today, invalidating laws that allow police to randomly pull over drivers for traffic stops. Justice Michel Yergeau r...

Oct 25, 2022

Vancouver council approves UN declaration on Indigenous rights strategy

Vancouver council has passed an Indigenous rights strategy that it says will make the city a national and world leader in implementing a plan towards reconciliation. The strategy is based on the Unite...

Oct 25, 2022

Mountie who recorded Lucki meeting first told investigators tape lost on stolen phone

HALIFAX - An affidavit by an RCMP security investigator details how the force obtained recordings of a tense meeting at the centre of allegations of political interference into the Mounties' investiga...

Oct 25, 2022