Canada

Parliamentary security, police preparing as truckers' protest convoy nears Ottawa

OTTAWA - Security forces on Parliament Hill are preparing for up to 10,000 protesters to set up camp in downtown Ottawa this weekend to push back against lockdowns and vaccination mandates. A memo the...

Jan 27, 2022

Tories' election review calls for more diverse candidates, greater outreach: sources

OTTAWA - A report into how the Conservatives fared in last year's election calls on the party to recruit more diverse candidates and for better outreach into different cultural communities, where the ...

Jan 27, 2022

Draft long-term care standards could have prevented pandemic deaths: committee chair

OTTAWA - An organization that develops health-care standards has released a draft of new long-term care guidance that the authors hope will fundamentally change the way Canadian care homes are accredi...

Jan 27, 2022

CRA to send out new round of letters checking eligibility from CERB recipients

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is sending out a new round of letters to pandemic aid recipients to verify they were eligible for the help, and warning of potential need for repayments. It's the se...

Jan 27, 2022

'It's about money, not people:' Immigration experts describe human smuggling business

Police in a western state of India have begun delving deeper into the deaths of four Indian migrants whose bodies were found in Manitoba just short of the Canada-U. S. border. Ashish Bhatia, director ...

Jan 27, 2022

Canada's top doctor says severe illness trends are still rising in most jurisdictions

Canada's top doctor says even though the average daily COVID-19 case count across the country is down 30 per cent compared to last week, it's not an accurate reflection of the state of the pandemic. D...

Jan 27, 2022

Verifying CERB recipients, tracking COVID cases : In The News for Jan. 27

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 Jan. 27 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jan 27, 2022

Mounties say autopsies have begun to identify four found dead near U.S. border

WINNIPEG - Mounties say autopsies have begun to try to identify four people who were found dead in a frigid Manitoba blizzard near the United States border. The bodies of a man, a woman, a teen and a ...

Jan 26, 2022

Government's decision not to review lithium company takeover a 'mistake': expert

OTTAWA - An intelligence expert said the federal government's decision not to conduct a formal national security review on the takeover of a Canadian lithium mining company by a Chinese state-owned co...

Jan 26, 2022

Alberta reports three cases of new COVID subvariant, more hospitalizations, deaths

EDMONTON - Alberta Health says it has detected three cases of the BA. 2 variant and reported its second-highest rate of hospitalizations due to COVID-19. The province says there were 1,418 hospitaliza...

Jan 26, 2022