Canada

Minister links chronic pain with toxic drug overdoses, commits $5M to pain network

VANCOUVER - The federal government is putting $5 million toward chronic pain resources in what Carolyn Bennett, minister of mental health and addictions, says is part of an effort to help stop people ...

Nov 07, 2022

PM free to reopen Constitution if he has problem with notwithstanding clause: Ford

OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is free to reopen talks with the provinces about the notwithstanding clause and the Constitution, though he'd recommend against it...

Nov 07, 2022

Feds hold groundbreaking ceremony for Moderna's mRNA vaccine factory in Montreal area

LAVAL, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today took part today in a groundbreaking ceremony for biotechnology company Moderna's new mRNA vaccine factory in Laval, Que., a suburb of Montreal. The fa...

Nov 07, 2022

Canadian Press NewsAlert: CUPE to end education worker protests in Ontario

TORONTO - A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Friday says protest sites "will be collapsed starting" Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will re...

Nov 07, 2022

Climate conference hears loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050

Scientists are telling the global climate conference in Egypt that the loss of summer Arctic sea ice is now inevitable. The report, delivered today at the COP 27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, says there...

Nov 07, 2022

Veterans' parade returns to national Remembrance Day after two-year hiatus

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Legion is welcoming back one of the most iconic aspects of Canada's national Remembrance Day ceremony following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: the veter...

Nov 07, 2022

Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade resigns for 'the good of the party'

MONTREAL - Dominique Anglade is resigning as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, five weeks after the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat in the provincial election. Anglade told reporters today she i...

Nov 07, 2022

Military investigating after Canadian soldier dies in Iraq

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating the death of a Winnipeg-based soldier who was serving in Iraq. Capt. Eric Cheung, 38, died Saturday under what the military is calling "non-...

Nov 07, 2022

Presidential push: Biden, Obama, Trump stump before Tuesday's midterm elections

WASHINGTON - Presidents past and present are making one final push as the 2022 U.S. midterm election campaigns finally approach the finish line. Joe Biden and Barack Obama reunited the 2008 Democratic...

Nov 07, 2022

Health ministers meeting, Emergencies Act inquiry continues : In The News for Nov. 7

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. 7 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Nov 07, 2022