Canada

Indigenous Services minister to visit site of mass killing in Saskatchewan

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - The federal minister for Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, is scheduled to visit on Tuesday the site of a mass killing in Saskatchewan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Haj...

Sep 12, 2022

Operating room conditions in Yellowknife hospital are 'unsustainable': nurses

YELLOWKNIFE - A union representing nurses at the largest hospital in the Northwest Territories says working conditions in its operating room are "unsustainable" and the territorial government needs to...

Sep 12, 2022

Green Party MPs threaten to leave, sit as Independents if leadership race suspended

OTTAWA - The two Green Party MPs have threatened to leave the party and sit as Independents if the leadership race is suspended, according to an internal email obtained by The Canadian Press. Elizabet...

Sep 12, 2022

Mass shooting inquiry: Former Mountie says he quit over quashed alert system proposal

HALIFAX - The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he ...

Sep 12, 2022

Nunavut rolling out new COVID-19 vaccine to older residents

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut says it is rolling out the newly approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The territory is now offering the booster shots to people 70 and older and all residents and staff in lo...

Sep 12, 2022

Coalition on climate adaptation says Canada needs hard targets on disaster resilience

OTTAWA - A coalition on climate adaptation and disaster resilience says air conditioning should become a human right on par with winter heating because climate change is increasing the risks of extrem...

Sep 12, 2022

Ontario opens bivalent vaccine appointments for most vulnerable

TORONTO - Ontario is rolling out Omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccines, starting with residents considered the most vulnerable, including those aged 70 and older, long-term care residents and health-care...

Sep 12, 2022

Canada and the Queen, Poilievre to meet with Tory caucus : In The News for Sept. 12

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 Sept. 12 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Sep 12, 2022

As pivotal midterm elections draw near, campaign trajectories upended by Roe v. Wade

WASHINGTON - What a difference a day makes - especially a day like June 24, 2022. With the stroke of a pen, the Supreme Court repealed nearly 50 years of abortion rights in the United States. Three mo...

Sep 12, 2022

Canada to be 'prominent' at Queen's lying in state and funeral: diplomat

LONDON - Canada will have a "prominent" role in the lying-in-state and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom says, as preparations in London shift into high g...

Sep 12, 2022