Canada

CSIS warns of increasingly sophisticated state-sponsored activity targeting elections

OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it continues to observe steady, and in some cases increasing, foreign interference by state actors against Canada. In a new report on the threa...

Jul 22, 2021

Defence aims at boat lights as O'Leary trial wraps

Overwhelming evidence showing another vessel's lights were off at the time Linda O'Leary crashed into it means she shouldn't be found guilty in the deadly boat collision, her lawyer argued in court Th...

Jul 22, 2021

Conservatives ask auditor general to review tax-change confusion

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are asking the auditor general to probe the Finance Department's handling of tax changes that left small business owners and family farmers confused for weeks. It...

Jul 22, 2021

Two Alberta First Nations want courts to allow appeal of decision on coal mine

A second Alberta First Nation wants the courts to allow it to appeal a review board's decision that an open-pit coal mine in the Rocky Mountains isn't in the public interest. The Stoney Nakoda Nation ...

Jul 22, 2021

Annamie Paul says 'small group' of party execs behind court case against Green leader

OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul is seeking to frame a legal challenge from her own party as the work of a "small group" of outgoing executives that amounts to a "one-sided attack." Backed by sign-t...

Jul 22, 2021

More evacuations ordered in B.C. as wildfires flare, fanned by strong winds

Residents in more areas of British Columbia have been forced from their homes indefinitely, this time by wildfires whipped up by strong winds in the southeastern part of the province. The Regional Dis...

Jul 22, 2021

Remains of fourth Canadian pulled from Florida condo collapse identified by police

MONTREAL - Miami-Dade police say a body pulled from a collapsed condominium building in South Florida has been identified as Anastasia Gromova, from Montreal. The police force confirmed the identity o...

Jul 22, 2021

Federal Islamophobia summit, Linda O'Leary trial wraps up: In The News for July 22

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 July 22 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jul 22, 2021

Feds host Islamophobia summit after series of deadly attacks across Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government is hosting a summit on Islamophobia today following a series of violent, targeted attacks that killed or injured Muslim Canadians and left communities across the countr...

Jul 22, 2021

'Celebrating with sadness': Muslims mark sombre Eid, some without health restrictions

EDMONTON - Haseeb Azhar says it felt odd hugging a Muslim co-worker and friend in Edmonton as he wished him a happy Eid. "Some people were hesitating ... it felt very weird," said the manager at a ste...

Jul 22, 2021