Canada

Former Speaker of B.C. legislature doesn't recall retirement payout documents: trial

VANCOUVER - A former Speaker of British Columbia's legislature says he doesn't remember seeing many of the documents outlining retirement and financial benefits linked to a breach-of-trust trial. Bill...

Feb 14, 2022

Emergencies Act could freeze protest trucks out of area around Parliament Hill

OTTAWA - Invoking the Emergencies Act could allow the federal government to forbid more large trucks from rolling into the gridlocked area around Parliament Hill. Security expert Wesley Wark says decl...

Feb 14, 2022

Ontario fast-tracks easing restrictions, Sask starts day without vaccine mandate

Ontario ramped up plans to drop a raft of COVID-19 restrictions, including the province's vaccine certificate system, while Alberta schools opened Monday without mask mandates for children. Saskatchew...

Feb 14, 2022

Blockade deadline and Ukraine crisis: In The News for Feb. 14

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 Feb. 14 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Feb 14, 2022

Ottawa mayor pushes to shrink convoy footprint, as feds eye action

Ottawa's mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital's core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest's footprint. Mayor Jim Wats...

Feb 14, 2022

Canada pulls troops out of Ukraine as worries of Russian invasion grow

OTTAWA - The military is moving troops out of Ukraine in one of the strongest signals yet that a Russian invasion is imminent. The Defence Department says soldiers who have been in Ukraine as part of ...

Feb 13, 2022

Industry, provincial lobbying weaken proposed federal coal effluent rules: critics

EDMONTON - The federal government has bowed to provincial and industry lobbying in weakening proposed standards for coal mining effluent, critics say. The draft regulations, released earlier this year...

Feb 13, 2022

'We were right there': Guardians in Fort Good Hope step in when no one else can

Twyla Edgi-Masuzumi was the first person to get a call when a family of six disappeared on the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories while travelling by boat to a funeral last summer. Edgi-Masu...

Feb 13, 2022

Police in Windsor, Ont. step up effort to end protest at Canada-U.S. border crossing

Police in Windsor, Ont., are resuming efforts to clear the Ambassador Bridge, a key border crossing between Canada and the U.S. where protesters opposed to COVID-19 public health restrictions have bro...

Feb 13, 2022

Protesters broke through RCMP barricades, causing highway closure near Pacific Border

SURREY, B.C. - The main route to the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey was closed Saturday afternoon after protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 measures broke through RCMP...

Feb 13, 2022