Canada

CP NewsAlert: Travel restricted, salons close in Iqaluit over COVID community spread

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is tightening COVID-19 public health restrictions in Iqaluit, including restricting travel in and out of the capital city to essential purposes only. The territory says star...

Dec 23, 2021

Quebec's COVID Count Rises and a Liberal MP gets Censured: In The News for Dec. 23

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 Dec. 23 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Dec 23, 2021

Canadians looking to privately sponsor Afghan refugees frustrated at process

Zahir Alizai is frustrated. His family fled Afghanistan for neighbouring Pakistan earlier this year and he's been trying for months to bring them to Canada as refugees but his attempts have been unsuc...

Dec 23, 2021

Trudeau beset by series of crises as PM, 2022 promises to be no different

OTTAWA - Another year, another crisis. For Justin Trudeau, it's become something of a routine. Of his six years as prime minister, only one - his first - has been what might be considered a normal yea...

Dec 23, 2021

Human connections: 'Friendly Calls' program reaches out to lonely, isolated Canadians

HALIFAX - Wendy Goodall moved from Ontario to the sprawling prairies of southern Saskatchewan two years ago. Then the COVID-19 pandemic shrank her world. "I knew nobody here, except my daughter and he...

Dec 23, 2021

Saskatchewan premier reflects on loss, what he learned about himself in past year

REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is heading to his rural home for the holidays and says he looks forward to another family hockey game - even though he's known as Uncle Moe who can't keep up on...

Dec 23, 2021

High pathogenic Avian Influenza on N.L. exhibition farm, area under quarantine: CFIA

Canada's food safety watchdog says it has confirmed cases of high pathogenic Avian Influenza at an exhibition farm in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says in a release W...

Dec 22, 2021

Users of Access to Information Act complain of delays, secrecy and inconsistencies

OTTAWA - Canadians using the Access to Information Act have voiced concerns about excessive delays in producing government records and even a "culture of secrecy." The findings come in an interim repo...

Dec 22, 2021

Liberal MP censured for defying advice on non-essential travel

OTTAWA - A Liberal MP has been censured by his party's chief whip for defying advice not to travel out of the country unless essential. Chief government whip Steven MacKinnon says he is profoundly dis...

Dec 22, 2021

Halifax police seek two suspects after 8-year-old boy killed in shooting Tuesday

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Halifax police are looking for two suspects after an 8-year-old boy was fatally shot while inside a car with an adult Tuesday afternoon. Const. John MacLeod today identified the chil...

Dec 22, 2021