Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for whales formerly kept in marine parks has come under fire from Marineland Canada. The marine park in Niagara Falls, Ont...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland released a fall economic statement today that outlined a better-than-expected economic rebound, but also billions more in spending, including on the respons...

OTTAWA - Three provincial privacy watchdogs have ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting, using and disclosing images of people without consent. The privacy authorities of B...

A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: - Ontario is ramping up COVID-19 testing in long-term care homes and tightening restrictions on visitors and resident activities in an attempt to guard ag...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Anita Anand says she is preparing the military to act quickly on retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour's recommendations for eliminating sexual misconduct from the rank...

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh says he would support federal intervention in a court challenge to a Quebec law known as Bill 21, which bans teachers and some other public-sector workers from wearing religious...

MONTREAL - A committee mandated by the Quebec government to investigate academic freedom says university classrooms should not be considered safe spaces. The committee, headed by former Parti Qubcois ...

Ontario and Quebec are each reporting more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19, ahead of separate briefings later today from the top health officials in both provinces. Ontario is reporting 1,429 new COV...

VICTORIA - The discovery of unmarked graves at a former residential school in the B.C. Interior and the countrywide awakening it set off have been chosen as Canada's news story of the year by editors ...

Toronto police are set to give an update this morning in the high-profile murders of billionaire philanthropists Barry and Honey Sherman. The founder of the generic pharmaceutical company Apotex and h...