Canada

Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids, but acknowledges that providing new servi...

Aug 09, 2022

Senegalese diplomat arrested by Quebec police owed former landlord more than $45,000

MONTREAL - The detention and alleged beating by Quebec police of a Senegalese diplomat last week came as a bailiff was attempting to seize property at her residence to pay for a judgment against her. ...

Aug 09, 2022

Montreal mayor says independent investigation to examine Pride parade cancellation

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal says an independent investigation will be held into Pride Montreal's last-minute cancellation of its emblematic parade on Sunday. Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante said on T...

Aug 09, 2022

Crowded tent encampment on main Vancouver street set to be removed by city

VANCOUVER - People living in a growing street encampment along a busy street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have been handed notices advising that the tents and other structures are about to be remo...

Aug 09, 2022

Top commander defends military's vaccine requirement, says 'tweak' in the works

OTTAWA - Canada's top military commander says he plans to "tweak" the Armed Forces' vaccine requirement in the next few weeks. But defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre is also defending the use of mandates, ...

Aug 09, 2022

RCMP spyware use probe, Newfoundland forest fires : In The News for Aug. 9

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. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Aug 09, 2022

House ethics committee begins second day of hearings into RCMP use of spyware

OTTAWA - The director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab says spyware is "like a wiretap on steroids," and it requires more oversight and a much higher threshold for use than traditional wiret...

Aug 09, 2022

Unpredictable winds make wildfires an erratic adversary: experts

Hot weather and dry conditions are the usual suspects in any wildfire season, but a complex interplay of topography and unpredictable winds can create particularly challenging adversaries for firefigh...

Aug 08, 2022

Bill Graham, ex-interim Liberal leader and post-9/11 foreign affairs minister, dies

OTTAWA - Bill Graham, who served as foreign affairs minister when Canada decided against joining the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died. Former Liberal MP John English told The Canadian Press tha...

Aug 08, 2022

Quebec's chief coroner calls inquest into last week's three Montreal shooting deaths

MONTREAL - Quebec's chief coroner is launching a public inquest after a 26-year-old man allegedly shot dead three Montreal-area men last week before being killed by police. Pascale Descary said today ...

Aug 08, 2022