Canada

Vancouver task force on Indigenous rights releases report for city council

Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with a plan developed alongside the three First Nations on whose territo...

Oct 19, 2022

Liberal GST rebate bill passes as government pushes cost-of-living measures

OTTAWA - People who receive the GST rebate can expect to see an extra cheque this year that will double the amount of the benefit for the next six months, after the Liberal government's Bill C-30 beca...

Oct 19, 2022

Arctic peers warn 'no return' to prewar times as Russia frozen from circumpolar talks

OTTAWA - Canada's allies are calling for a rethink in Arctic relations after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Washington's new Arctic policy calls for an increased American military presence in the Far N...

Oct 19, 2022

Second Quebec opposition party plans to refuse to swear loyalty oath to King Charles

MONTREAL - A debate over the oath that members of the legislature swear to the Crown is continuing in Quebec as an opposition party says it will refuse to swear it this afternoon. The Canadian Press h...

Oct 19, 2022

B.C. NDP leadership hopeful Appadurai expects exclusion, Eby poised to become premier

VANCOUVER - The campaign of B.C. New Democratic Party leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai says an NDP report recommends she be disqualified from the race, a decision that would make David Eby the sole...

Oct 19, 2022

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to skip Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has declined an invitation to attend the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on Saturday night, an event that was on a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. It'...

Oct 19, 2022

Governments weren't always working in tandem during 'Freedom Convoy': Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there were times during the "Freedom Convoy" protests last winter that the three levels of government were not working together as well as they could. But h...

Oct 19, 2022

Police chief said 'Freedom Convoy' would end by first Monday: ex-police board chair

OTTAWA - The former chair of Ottawa's police board says the chief of police told her in late January that he would be very surprised if the "Freedom Convoy" protesters stayed for longer than one weeke...

Oct 19, 2022

Estimate puts hurricane Fiona insured damages at $660 million

An initial estimate by Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. suggests hurricane Fiona caused $660 million in insured damage. The Insurance Bureau of Canada says the storm was the most costly ext...

Oct 19, 2022

B.C. Mountie killed and U.N. to vote on Haiti resolution: In The News for Oct. 19

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 Oct. 19 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Oct 19, 2022