Canada

Quebec elementary school teacher reassigned from class over hijab due to Bill 21

MONTREAL - An elementary school teacher in western Quebec has been reassigned from her classroom because her hijab contravenes the province's law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols. Pa...

Dec 09, 2021

Federal privacy watchdog warns of growing dangers of 'surveillance capitalism'

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog is warning Canadians about the growing threat of surveillance capitalism - the use of personal information by large corporations. In his annual report tabled toda...

Dec 09, 2021

Liberals' wage subsidy extension to push program costs to $107 billion, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government's plan to extend its wage subsidy will push the overall price for the program to almost $106.7 billion. The budget officer's repor...

Dec 09, 2021

Civil society organizations release drug decriminalization platform for Canada

OTTAWA - Twenty-one organizations across the country have released Canada's first civil society-led policy framework for drug decriminalization and redistributing resources from police to services tha...

Dec 09, 2021

Foods prices going up, Canada attends democracy summit : In The News for Dec. 9

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. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Dec 09, 2021

Former B.C. TV weather forecaster predicts climate catastrophe and hunger for UN

OTTAWA - As a transplanted British Columbian, Jesse Mason views the extreme and shifting weather patterns unfolding in his native province with a high level of concern. First, there was the heat dome ...

Dec 09, 2021

Virus behind COVID-19 spreads quickly and mutations make it unpredictable: experts

Putting an end to the COVID-19 pandemic will mean priming the immune systems of everyone on Earth but the virus is spreading quickly and may take years to "settle down," says an infectious disease spe...

Dec 09, 2021

With Taiwan, Ukraine and Jan. 6 as backdrop, U.S. hosts global Summit for Democracy

WASHINGTON - It's hard to imagine a more dramatic backdrop as President Joe Biden's virtual Summit for Democracy gets underway today: authoritarianism looming large over Ukraine, Taiwan - and the Unit...

Dec 09, 2021

Manitoba elder Dave Courchene Jr., founder of Indigenous education centre, dies at 71

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba elder who founded an internationally recognized centre that shares Indigenous knowledge and teachings died Wednesday at age 71. The Turtle Lodge Centre of Excellence in Indigenou...

Dec 08, 2021

Three NDP MPs sign petition criticizing B.C.'s NDP government over pipeline protests

OTTAWA - Three federal New Democrat MPs have signed a petition denouncing British Columbia's NDP government for its handling of an Indigenous protest at a pipeline work site and voicing distress at th...

Dec 08, 2021