Canada

Feds announce $1 million fund to reach communities affected by monkeypox

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to give $1 million to community organizations across the country to provide gay and bisexual men with information about monkeypox and combat stigma around the dis...

Jul 21, 2022

Trudeau: Hockey Canada needs a 'real reckoning' in wake of scandal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there needs to be a "real reckoning" at Hockey Canada as the organization continues to deal with the fallout related to its handling of an alleged sexual assault and...

Jul 21, 2022

Tories, advocates call on Ottawa to remove bureaucratic hurdles to resettling Afghans

OTTAWA - Opposition Conservatives are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to extend a special immigration program it set up to bring Afghans trying to flee the Taliban to Canada. Tor...

Jul 21, 2022

187 minutes: Jan. 6 committee focuses on Trump himself in prime-time hearing finale

WASHINGTON - Tonight's prime-time finale by the Jan. 6 committee will be focused on Donald Trump himself and what he was doing - or not doing - while violence raged on Capitol Hill. The committee's ei...

Jul 21, 2022

Conservative Party of Canada decides to hold third leadership debate in August

OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada has decided to hold a third debate in the contest to become its next leader. Members of the leadership election organizing committee met Wednesday and decided...

Jul 21, 2022

Heat warnings across Canada, BoC inflation lessons : In The News for July 21

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 July 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jul 21, 2022

Expanded Quebec provincial police cold case squad has yet to solve a murder

MONTREAL - More than 50 years later, Isabel Marcotte still feels the pain of her sister's murder every day. On Sept. 12, 1969, 14-year-old Teresa Martin got off the bus near her home in Montreal's nor...

Jul 21, 2022

'A personal journey': People travelling great distances to see Pope Francis

Susan Enge will be thinking of her mother's time in a residential school during the long journey south from the Northwest Territories to see Pope Francis in Alberta. Her thoughts will linger on that l...

Jul 21, 2022

Temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C in parts of the country

Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for a number of provinces, with temperatures expected to reach or surpass 30 C over the coming days. The heat advisories cover large swaths of New Brunswick...

Jul 21, 2022

Review committee recommends Quebec Justice Gérard Dugré be removed from office

OTTAWA - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee says a Quebec judge who displayed "aggressive and disagreeable" attitudes toward lawyers and failed to render decisions on time should be removed...

Jul 20, 2022