Canada

Protesters show no sign of rolling off as Ottawa residents brace for more disruption

OTTAWA - Many of the horn-honking demonstrators who brought Ottawa to a near standstill showed no signs of budging Sunday as parliamentarians, businesses and school administrators were left wondering ...

Jan 30, 2022

Trudeau seeks NDP, Bloc support to prevent Conservative 'obstructionism'

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is counting on the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP to help his minority Liberal government get things done in the face of what he anticipates will be systematic obstr...

Jan 30, 2022

Quebec Premier announces candidate for upcoming byelection in Marie-Victorin riding

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault has named the woman who will carry his party's banner during a pending byelection in a Montreal-area riding. He says Shirley Dorismond will represent the Coal...

Jan 30, 2022

'The devil is definitely in the details': How fuel could have entered Iqaluit's water

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Iqaluit resident Jenny Ell says she couldn't believe it when she turned on her tap a couple of weeks ago and smelled fuel for the second time in a matter of months. Ell, who is preg...

Jan 30, 2022

National standards would help track young Canadians' mental health, experts say

OTTAWA - Concern about the mental health challenges of young Canadians has been growing during the nearly two years of disruptions and repeated isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. But experts say ...

Jan 30, 2022

After reflecting on two election defeats, B.C. Liberals get ready to elect new leader

VICTORIA - A new leader will be chosen by British Columbia's Liberals on Saturday after a months-long campaign that often focused on renewal and a new course for a party that has lost successive elect...

Jan 30, 2022

Quebec restaurants are reopening, but some former workers don't plan to go back

MONTREAL - Restaurants in Quebec will be allowed to reopen Monday for the first time in more than a month, but some former workers say they won't be looking for new jobs in the industry. Milovan Danie...

Jan 30, 2022

Convoys against mandates in other Canadian cities support of Ottawa truck protest

EDMONTON - Like many of those gathered near the Alberta legislature to support a convoy of trucks that inched their way through Edmonton's downtown streets for several hours on Saturday, Kyla Keulers ...

Jan 29, 2022

The latest on the anti-vaccine mandate protest happening on Parliament Hill

OTTAWA - The latest developments on Saturday's planned protest by truckers of COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government. *Times shown are Eastern Time6:40 p.m.Cpl. Curtis Pe...

Jan 29, 2022

Officials decry 'desecration' of monuments during Ottawa protest

Some protesters jumped on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and others fastened an inverted Canadian flag to a statue of Terry Fox as they decried vaccine mandates in the nation's capital on Saturday. T...

Jan 29, 2022