Canada

Artists to cash in when work is resold with update of copyright laws

OTTAWA - Artists are to get paid when their work is resold in a shakeup of copyright laws that would give them a slice of collectors' profits. Painters, sculptors and other visual artists stand to get...

Aug 06, 2022

Pandemic benefits were too generous with businesses, stringent with workers: experts

OTTAWA - Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed vulnerable Canadians to stay healthy while maintaining an income, but business supports were excessive and show the outsized ...

Aug 06, 2022

Amanda Todd's mother highlights impact of 'sextortion', as jury deliberates

NEW WESTMINSTER - The mother of Amanda Todd hopes her daughter's case brings increased awareness of the devastating impacts of "sextortion", as a jury in the trial of a Dutch man accused of blackmaili...

Aug 06, 2022

Sextortion boom coincides with pandemic's online shift, as experts raise alarm

VANCOUVER - The mass shift online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a boom of so-called "sextortion scams," new data from Statistics Canada suggests. As authorities aim to educate you...

Aug 06, 2022

Russia sanctions LGBTQ activist, Freeland and Joly's staff, singer Chantal Kreviazuk

OTTAWA - Russia sanctioned a raft of Canadian public figures on Friday including Maj.-Gen. Michael Wright, head of Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, and the pastor who officiated the first gay mar...

Aug 05, 2022

'More than a brother to me': Victims of Montreal-area killings remembered

MONTREAL - Families and communities are mourning a grandfather, a hospital worker and a 22-year-old riding his skateboard who lost their lives this week to a seemingly random string of shootings in th...

Aug 05, 2022

Judge instructs jury before its deliberation in online extortion case of B.C. teen

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The British Columbia Supreme Court justice in the trial of a Dutch man charged with harassing and extorting teenager Amanda Todd told the jury to "take special care" with the t...

Aug 05, 2022

Government to use regulation to ban handgun imports in two weeks

The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Sa...

Aug 05, 2022

Evacuation orders, alerts expanded near wildfire burning in B.C.'s south Okanagan

Unpredictable wildfire behaviour in British Columbia's southern Okanagan has forced the evacuation of the entire community of Olalla and an evacuation alert for the village of Keremeos, just a few kil...

Aug 05, 2022

After papal apology in Canada, U.S. sets sights on missing, murdered Indigenous women

WASHINGTON - The president of the National Congress of American Indians says Canada's progress on Indigenous issues is helping to push the United States in the same direction. Fawn Sharp says it's no ...

Aug 05, 2022