Canada

Group files constitutional challenge of ArriveCan app in Federal Court

OTTAWA - A constitutional rights group has launched a legal challenge of a federal requirement that travellers to Canada use the ArriveCan app. The action was filed in Federal Court by the Justice Cen...

Aug 24, 2022

Quebec's CAQ leads rivals in fundraising, Liberals in last place among major parties

MONTREAL - Quebec's governing Coalition Avenir Qubec party has raised more than $928,500 so far in 2022, nearly $300,000 more than its nearest rival, the Parti Qubcois. According to the most recent le...

Aug 24, 2022

40 residents of Vancouver street camp accept accommodation: BC Housing

VANCOUVER - BC Housing says 40 people in Vancouver who were living in a Downtown Eastside street encampment being cleared by city workers have accepted offers of accommodation. The agency's vice-presi...

Aug 24, 2022

Canada has short window to get ahead of U.S. hydrogen efforts, backer warns

OTTAWA - The chairman of the company behind one of the biggest proposed green hydrogen projects in Atlantic Canada says a three-year time frame to start shipping the fuel to Germany is feasible if eve...

Aug 24, 2022

Quebec official says Omicron-targeted bivalent vaccine ready in 'less than two weeks'

MONTREAL - Quebec's public health director says a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant should be available in less than two weeks. Dr. Luc B...

Aug 24, 2022

More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his department is going on a hiring spree to bring 1,250 new employees on board by the end of the fall to tackle massive backlogs in processing applicati...

Aug 24, 2022

Head of federal telecom regulator did not breach Conflict of Interest Act: watchdog

OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog says the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he held meetings with large telec...

Aug 24, 2022

RCMP Commissioner Lucki grilled at N.S. inquiry about failure to implement reforms

HALIFAX - RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is facing questions today at a public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting on why the police force didn't move more swiftly to implement recommendat...

Aug 24, 2022

Dropping mask requirements, Indigenous SCOC nominee speaks: In The News for Aug. 24

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 Aug. 24 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Aug 24, 2022

First Indigenous Supreme Court nominee Michelle O'Bonsawin to speak to committee

OTTAWA - Michelle O'Bonsawin, the judge poised to become the first Indigenous justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, will speak at a parliamentary committee meeting this afternoon. Today's meeting wi...

Aug 24, 2022