Canada

Canadian military's new plan to fight misconduct includes culture officers, training

OTTAWA - Canadian Armed Forces commander Lt.-Gen. Wayne Eyre says the military's new plan to fight misconduct will include posting "culture officers" to warships, holding workshops with survivors, and...

Jul 12, 2021

Judge sides with privacy watchdog on Google searches in 'right to be forgotten' case

OTTAWA - A federal judge says the results of Google searches are covered by the law governing how companies handle personal information, a victory for people seeking a digital "right to be forgotten."...

Jul 12, 2021

National strategy calls on Canada to address Inuit food security crisis

OTTAWA - A new strategy from Canada's Inuit organization calls on the federal government to support a national Inuit food security strategy to address what it calls a national public health crisis. Th...

Jul 12, 2021

Judge overseeing church challenge of COVID-19 restrictions says he was followed

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge overseeing a court challenge of public health rules by seven churches says he's deeply troubled a private investigator was hired to follow him with the intent of finding in...

Jul 12, 2021

Carolyn Rogers named new senior deputy at Bank of Canada

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is naming Carolyn Rogers as its new senior deputy governor. Rogers is a former assistant superintendent at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. She h...

Jul 12, 2021

Canada to donate 17.7M doses of AstraZeneca and raise money for global vaccination

OTTAWA - The federal government is donating 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and is asking Canadians to give their own money to help other countries get needles into arms. Procurem...

Jul 12, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, July 12, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ontario is reporting 114 new COVID-19 cases today and no deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health officials...

Jul 12, 2021

Ottawa adds national security risk assessments to federal research funding

OTTAWA - The federal government is setting new guidelines that work national security considerations into funding criteria for university research. Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says ...

Jul 12, 2021

New B.C. wildfire forces evacuations in south Okanagan as some heat warnings resume

A new wildfire in British Columbia has forced the evacuation of nearly 80 properties, while residents of hundreds more homes around the south Okanagan lakeside community of Okanagan Falls have been or...

Jul 12, 2021

Fleeing B.C. fires and Canada's rising vaccination rate: In The News for July 12

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 July12 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Jul 12, 2021