Canada

Young Canadians file suit against federal over minimum voting age

Several young Canadians are taking the federal government to court in an effort to strike down the minimum voting age. They argue that denying citizens under the age of 18 the right to vote in federal...

Dec 01, 2021

Feds open bids for 'major attraction' in renewed bid for major land project in Ottawa

OTTAWA - A federal agency is swinging open the doors for companies to propose one or more attractions to anchor a major land development project near the capital's downtown. The sprawling 29-hectare s...

Dec 01, 2021

Dumping day: Lobster fishing season opens in southwestern Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's fall lobster fishing season opened early today in the two most lucrative fishing areas in Canada. The annual event off southwestern Nova Scotia is known as "dumping day," as th...

Dec 01, 2021

Dozens of weather warnings in effect across soaked British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A landslide closed traffic today on the same highway near Agassiz, B.C., where motorists were trapped between slides caused by major rainstorms last month. DriveBC says the road has been r...

Dec 01, 2021

Hundreds of Quebec daycares closed by general strike as contract talks stall

MONTREAL - Roughly 400 public daycare centres across Quebec are closed as of today after contract talks hit an impasse and employees with one of the main unions declared a general strike. About 10,000...

Dec 01, 2021

Ottawa, provinces mull expansion of COVID-19 tests for arriving American travellers

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says it's too early to say whether Canada's latest requirement to test arriving air travellers for COVID-19 will be extended to include those coming from the ...

Dec 01, 2021

Federal government needs to up spending to give First Nations clean water, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would need to increase planned spending to provide clean drinking water in First Nations. Yves Giroux's report this morning says t...

Dec 01, 2021

Province orders new probe after second arrest video by Quebec City police goes viral

Quebec's public security minister has ordered a second investigation into the Quebec City police over another video of a violent arrest. Genevive Guilbault announced today she's asking the police ethi...

Dec 01, 2021

Conversion therapy bill, another storm for BC: In The News for Dec. 1

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. 1 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Dec 01, 2021

Supreme Court ruling could change how human rights law is applied in Quebec

MONTREAL - After Marco Ayotte's uncle used a homophobic slur toward him in July 2018 and said he should kill himself, Ayotte didn't just fume about a vulgar, insensitive relative. He filed a complaint...

Dec 01, 2021