Canada

New CDC guidance makes it clear: time to reopen Canada-U.S. border, congressman says

WASHINGTON - A U.S. lawmaker who has made a political crusade out of getting the border with Canada reopened is once again pressing his case with President Joe Biden. New York Rep. Brian Higgins has w...

May 14, 2021

Canada, U.S., Mexico to talk trade at first USMCA Free Trade Commission meeting

WASHINGTON - Senior officials from Canada, the United States and Mexico will meet virtually next week for the first Free Trade Commission meeting of the USMCA era. International Trade Minister Mary Ng...

May 14, 2021

Bloc Québécois leader says next federal election campaign could begin in mid-August

Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet says he sees an opening to begin the next federal election campaign on Aug. 16 if the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.Blanchet, whose party holds 32 seats ...

May 14, 2021

Business, labour groups clash at Senate committee over $15 federal minimum wage

OTTAWA - The head of the country's largest private-sector union says Parliament should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and possibly put future increases into the hands of an independen...

May 14, 2021

Kenney distances himself from caucus vote to turf dissidents with 'personal agendas'

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is distancing himself from a decision to expel two members from his United Conservative caucus.But he says the decision affirms confidence of the caucus in his ...

May 14, 2021

Fewer flights land in Canada with COVID-19 since ban on planes from India, Pakistan

OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...

May 14, 2021

Quebec coroner hears from family of Joyce Echaquan on Day 2 of inquest

MONTREAL - More family members are taking the stand today at a coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman last year subjected to insults as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montre...

May 14, 2021

Supreme Court addresses issue of consent in restoring sexual-assault convictions

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the convictions of a common-law couple for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a camping trip. The girl was accompanied by her mother, stepf...

May 14, 2021

Metro Vancouver shooting that left 1 dead 2 injured not random, police say

The Burnaby RCMP are investigating a shooting at a shopping complex in Metro Vancouver that left one person dead and two others in hospital. Police said they were called to the scene around 8:35 p.m. ...

May 14, 2021

Americans get a break on masks. What about Canada? : In The News for May 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 May 14 ...What we are watching in Canada ...Th...

May 14, 2021