Canada

Ottawa reveals plan to welcome 500,000 immigrants per year by 2025

OTTAWA - The federal government is planning a massive increase in the number of immigrants entering Canada, with a goal of seeing 500,000 people arrive each year by 2025. Immigration Minister Sean Fra...

Nov 01, 2022

Mom of last Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan named Silver Cross Mother

OTTAWA - We'll see you at Christmas. It was October 2011 and Candy Greff was standing outside a restaurant in Morinville, Alta.,saying goodbye to her son Byron Greff. Little did she know that it would...

Nov 01, 2022

Truckers to testify and BoC governor speaks to Senate: In The News for Nov. 1

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. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Nov 01, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' leaders to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizers are expected to testify at the public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act starting today. The witnesses are expected to shed light on ...

Nov 01, 2022

Lawyers for Ontario Premier Doug Ford to appear in to court today to fight summons

OTTAWA - Lawyers for Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top provincial minister are set to argue in court today in an effort to get the pair out of testifying at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry. The ...

Nov 01, 2022

Macklem, Rogers to appear before Senate banking committee Tuesday evening

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem and senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers are expected to testify before the Senate banking committee this evening. Last week, the central bank raised int...

Nov 01, 2022

Feds looked to international missing persons commission for help on unmarked graves

OTTAWA - The Canadian government approached an international commission that helped identify the remains of those killed during 9/11 and the Lac-Mgantic rail disaster to potentially aid its response t...

Nov 01, 2022

'Diagolon' founder Jeremy MacKenzie expected to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry

OTTAWA - The public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act during "Freedom Convoy" protests says it expects to call "Diagolon" founder Jeremy MacKenzie as a witness. Public O...

Oct 31, 2022

Santa Claus isn't coming to town, Vancouver parade cancelled for third year

VANCOUVER - The Santa Claus Parade in downtown Vancouver has been cancelled for a third straight year, but this time COVID-19 isn't playing the Grinch. The Vancouver Santa Claus Parade Society instead...

Oct 31, 2022

Ukraine tracking thousands of war crimes despite judicial system woes: chief justice

OTTAWA - Violence in Ukraine has crippled the country's judicial system, the chief justice of its Supreme Court says, and left it struggling to handle tens of thousands of criminal reports arising fro...

Oct 31, 2022