Canada

Hockey Canada board resigned after justice Thomas Cromwell's recommendation

A former Supreme Court justice recommended wholesale change at Hockey Canada a day before the embattled sports organization's president/CEO and board resigned on Tuesday. Hockey Canada released a memo...

Oct 13, 2022

Feds don't know how many employees speak an Indigenous language at work

OTTAWA - The federal government says it doesn't know how many of its employees are expected to speak an Indigenous language as part of their job. It comes as Ottawa faces calls to expand the compensat...

Oct 13, 2022

Sajjan likens Russian missile strikes on Ukraine cities to Holodomor famine

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says Russia's strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure have him thinking about a historical famine. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in...

Oct 13, 2022

U.S. is holding Nexus trusted-traveller program 'hostage,' Canadian envoy says

WASHINGTON - Canada's envoy to the United States says the cross-border Nexus trusted-traveller program is being "held hostage" by a U.S. effort to renegotiate the 20-year-old agreement. Kirsten Hillma...

Oct 13, 2022

Quebecer charged in 22-year-old murder after beefed-up cold case unit logs 1st arrest

MONTREAL - A Quebec man has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in the homicide of a junior college student 22 years ago. A Crown prosecutor says Marc-Andr Grenon was c...

Oct 13, 2022

Budget officer projects considerably slower economy, declining federal deficit

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is projecting the economy will slow considerably in the second half of 2022 and remain weak next year as the Bank of Canada continues to raise interest rates....

Oct 13, 2022

Zahra Kazemi's prosecutor included in Canada's new Iran sanctions

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly will announce today that Canada is adding more Iranian officials and entities to the sanctions list. The measures will mean 17 individuals and three entit...

Oct 13, 2022

Sentencing set to wrap for Dutch man convicted of sextortion of B.C. teen Amanda Todd

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A sentencing hearing is expected to conclude today in a New Westminster, B.C., courtroom for the man convicted of multiple sexual offences against teenager Amanda Todd. Defence...

Oct 13, 2022

Police fatality fallout and Emergencies Act inquiry launches: In The News for Oct. 13

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. 13 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Oct 13, 2022

Drought and moths push the trees of Vancouver's Stanley Park to the brink

VANCOUVER - First came the moths. Then came the drought. The trees of Stanley Park, typically the green jewel of Vancouver's downtown core, just can't catch a break. Experts say large numbers of brown...

Oct 13, 2022