Canada

GoFund Me called to Commons committee as links to U.S. alleged in Ottawa protest

OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee has called on GoFundMe representatives to testify about how it ensures that money raised on its platform isn't used to promote hate, such as antisemitism and white s...

Feb 03, 2022

Ottawa 'clarifies' truckers are not exempt from COVID-19 vaccine mandate

OTTAWA - The government has issued an order-in-council clarifying that truckers are not exempt from a vaccine mandate after bureaucrats were confused by their own policy. The Canada Border Services Ag...

Feb 03, 2022

From heroes to targets: At an Ontario hospital, anti-vax protests weigh on staff

Nicole Corry says she didn't become a personal support worker to be called a hero. But she never anticipated that she would be villainized as she puts her health and family's welfare on the line to ca...

Feb 03, 2022

Quebec court says justice minister's intervention on judge bilingualism illegal

MONTREAL - The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that the province's justice minister does not get to decide whether judges can be required to speak English as well as French. The case was centred aroun...

Feb 03, 2022

New blockade in Alberta cutting off traffic to U.S. border crossing

MILK RIVER, ALBERTA - RCMP say a second blockade on a highway leading to the main United States border crossing in Alberta has choked off traffic. "Protesters have stopped traffic from going southboun...

Feb 03, 2022

Canadian military cuts dozens of unvaccinated troops, puts hundreds more on notice

OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says dozens of Canadian Armed Forces members who refused to get vaccinated have now been kicked out of the military. Release proceedings have started for hu...

Feb 03, 2022

Police in England say young Vernon, B.C., woman murdered in Essex, man in custody

Police in Essex, England, say a 19-year-old British Columbia woman has been murdered and a man is under arrest. A statement from Essex Police says 19-year-old Ashley Wadsworth of Vernon died Tuesday, ...

Feb 03, 2022

Ottawa mayor blasts protest support, COVID rules loosening: In The News for Feb. 3

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. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Feb 03, 2022

Unifying a divided caucus is job No. 1 for new interim Tory leader Candice Bergen

OTTAWA - Manitoba MP Candice Bergen is waking up with a new job today: unifying the Conservative caucus. The party's former deputy leader was elected by her colleagues to serve as interim leader after...

Feb 03, 2022

Ottawa mayor calls Conservative MPs support of protest "an absolute disgrace"

Ottawa's mayor is calling on several Conservatives MPs and a senator from Saskatchewan to apologize for praising the anti-vaccine mandate protest that has brought the capital's downtown to a standstil...

Feb 03, 2022