Canada

It will take pressure to get some provinces to sign child-care deal: Trudeau

MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it will take pressure from activists, unions and family groups to get some provinces to sign on to his government's national child-care program. Trud...

Jul 27, 2021

Annamie Paul says Green party convention will go ahead even if election is underway

OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul says the party will hold a national convention next month even if a federal election campaign is in full swing. At a climate roundtable this morning, Paul told repor...

Jul 27, 2021

One-time payments to seniors over 75 likely to also go to the dead, documents say

OTTAWA - Canada's seniors minister was warned in the spring that the Liberal government's plan to send $500 payments to pensioners in August would end with some of the money going to people who had di...

Jul 27, 2021

Trudeau says Ottawa withholding 'millions of dollars' from N.B. over abortion access

MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is withholding millions of dollars in health-care transfers to New Brunswick because the province is limiting access to abortion. Trud...

Jul 27, 2021

Trudeau says Canadiens' selection of Logan Mailloux shows 'lack of judgment'

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that as a lifelong Montreal Canadiens fan he's "deeply disappointed" by the team's selection of Logan Mailloux in the NHL draft. Mailloux, who was picked ...

Jul 27, 2021

Only half of one per cent of new COVID-19 cases are in fully vaccinated: Trudeau

MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Canadians who still have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine to roll up their sleeves, saying that the overwhelming majority of cases are in people wh...

Jul 27, 2021

Capitol Hill officers take stand to begin hearings into Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot

WASHINGTON - A group of Capitol Hill and D.C. police officers are on the witness stand as the long-awaited hearings into the Jan. 6 riot get underway. The four were among those who endured the wrath o...

Jul 27, 2021

Fix needed for issue behind Cyclone crash, Barton sentencing: In The News for July 27

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 27 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jul 27, 2021

Urgent need in Alberta to address potent drug supply, overdose crisis: health experts

EDMONTON - Alberta needs to create an emergency program similar to ones in other provinces to address a toxic drug supply that is killing people, an emergency room doctor and public health professor s...

Jul 27, 2021

Alberta judge to sentence trucker found guilty in the death of a woman in hotel room

EDMONTON - An Ontario trucker found guilty for killing a woman in his Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is to learn his sentence today. Bradley Barton was convicted in February in the manslaughter of C...

Jul 27, 2021