Canada

Montreal churches look for efficient ways to get essential items to Ukraine

MONTREAL - There was excitement at St. Michael's Ukrainian church on a rainy, windswept morning in Montreal earlier this week when a donation of highly sought medical supplies for Ukraine arrived. A p...

Mar 26, 2022

Safe-supply pilot project findings promising, but advocates say more action is needed

OTTAWA - Advocates say while the early findings on safe supply pilot projects are promising, they're still not meeting the needs of a large share of Canadians who are at risk of drug poisoning. The fe...

Mar 26, 2022

Climate protests held in cities across Canada as part of global movement

MONTREAL - Protesters gathered in cities across Canada on Friday to denounce government inaction on fighting climate change as part of a series of worldwide environmental protests. The events were par...

Mar 25, 2022

Alberta premier's political foe fears fraudulence in mail-in leadership vote

A major rival to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he fears a mail-in leadership vote will be rampant with cheating and fraud - a claim that Kenney's campaign team says is baseless. Brian Jean, who la...

Mar 25, 2022

Convoy organizer Tamara Lich to appeal bail conditions: lawyers

OTTAWA - Tamara Lich is appealing her bail conditions as she awaits trial on charges related to her role in organizing a protest that created gridlock in downtown Ottawa for several weeks. Diane Magas...

Mar 25, 2022

CP NewsAlert: Feds commit another $2B to cut health backlogs caused by COVID-19

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says the federal government will commit another $2 billion as a one-time top-up to help provincial health systems work through their surgical and diagnostic b...

Mar 25, 2022

B.C. drivers getting one-time rebate to help with rising fuel prices

VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says drivers in British Columbia will get a one-time relief rebate to help deal with the cost of rising gas prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Horgan says th...

Mar 25, 2022

YouTube warns federal bill could hit digital creators' earnings from abroad

OTTAWA - YouTube says Canadian digital creators, including influencers, could lose foreign revenue if the government forces online platforms to promote Canadian content. The platform says proposed leg...

Mar 25, 2022

A bilateral data-sharing deal with U.S. better than status quo, says privacy watchdog

WASHINGTON - Canada's privacy watchdog is cautiously optimistic about the prospect of a bilateral deal with the United States to streamline cross-border access to data in criminal investigations. The ...

Mar 25, 2022

WHO rejects Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine from Medicago, with ties to big tobacco

OTTAWA - The World Health Organization has rejected Medicago's made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine, restricting the federal government's ability to donate those doses to countries in need. The federal gov...

Mar 25, 2022