Canada

Moderna's promised vaccine production facility to be built in Montreal area

OTTAWA - American vaccine maker Moderna will announce Friday it intends to build its promised Canadian production facility in the Montreal area. A source with knowledge of the announcement confirms th...

Apr 28, 2022

Ottawa will not tolerate another occupation, police chief warns biker convoy

Ottawa's interim police chief is warning a planned biker convoy that the city will not tolerate any sort of longer-term occupation of the capital. Interim police chief Steve Bell delivered the warning...

Apr 28, 2022

Canadian Blood Services to end 'blood ban,' bring in behaviour-based screening

OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services says Health Canada has approved its request to end the policy that restricts men who have sex with men from donating blood for three months. Canadian Blood Services as...

Apr 28, 2022

Defence Minister Anita Anand in D.C. to talk Ukraine, Norad with U.S. counterpart

WASHINGTON - Defence Minister Anita Anand is headed to the Pentagon to meet with her American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, as the war in Ukraine injects new urgency into cross-border military priorities...

Apr 28, 2022

Nearly 1,000 Canadian Armed Forces members denied COVID-19 vaccine exemptions

OTTAWA - The Canadian military says nearly 1,000 members have been denied exemptions from the military's COVID-19 vaccine requirement. Vice-chief of the defence staff Lt.-Gen. Frances Allen says more ...

Apr 28, 2022

Ottawa prepares for new convoy, Ontario budget out today : In The News for April 28

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 April 28 ... What we are watching in Canada .....

Apr 28, 2022

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to visit counterpart Mary Ng in Ottawa

WASHINGTON - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will travel north of the border next week to meet with her Canadian counterpart, Mary Ng. Tai's office says the ambassador will hold two days of me...

Apr 27, 2022

B.C. raises forest revenue sharing amounts for First Nations in reconciliation move

VICTORIA - First Nations in British Columbia will receive a $63 million increase in forestry income this year as part of a new revenue-sharing model that Indigenous leaders say is an encouraging step ...

Apr 27, 2022

Curbing Canadian forest fires could be an affordable way to cut emissions: study

Better wildfire management in Canadian and Alaskan forests could offer a cost-effective way to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a new study says. Research published in the journal Science Advances on W...

Apr 27, 2022

Passersby tried to rob dying victim: Saskatchewan woman sentenced in fatal stabbing

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan woman who stabbed her victim outside a mall where people robbed her as she lay dying has been sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for manslaughter. Latisha Grumbo,...

Apr 27, 2022