Canada

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

Canada to reach 55M vaccine doses by week's end, catching up to U.S. on second doses

OTTAWA - Canada is expecting vaccine shipments to keep rolling in this week as the country inches closer to matching the percentage of people in the United States fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Th...

Jul 12, 2021

Two police watchdogs now mandated to probe domestic violence, experts say more needed

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's new police oversight agency has become just the second in Canada with an explicit mandate to investigate allegations of domestic violence committed by of...

Jul 12, 2021

Montreal blue-collar workers allege systemic racism on the job, seek compensation

MONTREAL - Blue-collar workers employed by a Montreal borough say they're seeking compensation from the city after a pair of reports earlier this spring revealed allegations of widespread discriminati...

Jul 12, 2021