Canada

Dozens of lawyers call for suspension of extradition with France over Diab case

OTTAWA - More than 100 legal professionals are asking Canada to suspend its extradition treaty with France over concerns "an innocent man" could face trial there in a terrorism case. In May, a French ...

Sep 14, 2021

Officials too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths at Montreal care home: witness

MONTREAL - An auxiliary nurse told a coroner's inquest today that health authorities were too quick to blame COVID-19 for deaths in a Montreal-area long-term care home when some of them were in fact c...

Sep 14, 2021

Desmond inquiry: focus of hearings shifts to examination of domestic violence

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A Nova Scotia inquiry investigating why a former soldier killed his family and himself in 2017 turned its attention today to the issue of domestic violence. The executive direc...

Sep 14, 2021

N.S. family who perished in trailer fire were busy and boisterous: neighbour

AMHERST, N.S. - A mother, father and four children who perished in a fire inside their vacation trailer are being recalled as an active, boisterous family by a friend who rented them the Amherst, N.S....

Sep 14, 2021

Calgary firm advances new trial, manufacturing of mRNA vaccine for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Calgary-based Providence Therapeutics says it has signed two contracts to have its developmental mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 manufactured in Canada. The company says it has signed a $90-million...

Sep 14, 2021

Alberta's 'Open For Summer' plan was premature: chief medical officer of health

Alberta's top doctor says the province's "Open For Summer" plan set the trajectory for a crushing fourth wave of COVID-19. Chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, told a conference call wi...

Sep 14, 2021

'Blatant attack': Panel of UN experts assails 'regressive' Texas abortion law

WASHINGTON - A panel of United Nations human rights experts is formally denouncing what it calls a "regressive" new abortion law in Texas. And the UN panel says the U.S. Supreme Court is complicit in ...

Sep 14, 2021

Yellowknife schools ordered to close for 10 days as COVID-19 cases grow

YELLOWKNIFE - The chief public health officer in the Northwest Territories has closed all schools in Yellowknife and surrounding areas after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Schools will be closed starting ...

Sep 14, 2021

Liberals, Tories in deadlock; Linda O'Leary verdict expected: In The News for Sept 14

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 Sept. 14... What we are watching in Canada ......

Sep 14, 2021

Verdict expected today in trial of Linda O'Leary, accused in fatal boat crash

A verdict is expected today in the trial of Linda O'Leary, charged in a boat crash that killed two people in central Ontario two years ago. O'Leary, the wife of celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary, ha...

Sep 14, 2021