Canada

Crown says it was reasonable for border screening to precede Meng's arrest

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says it was entirely reasonable for border officers to question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou before her arrest in 2018. Diba Majzub told the B.C. Su...

Mar 24, 2021

Industry minister foresees biomanufacturing revival, including vaccines — eventually

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne sees a future for Canada as a leader in biomanufacturing, including vaccines - but not soon. In a speech at the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolita...

Mar 24, 2021

Conservatives call on Liberals to stop payments to Chinese infrastructure bank

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to stop making payments to the Asian Infrastructure Bank in light of the ongoing detention and lack of transparency around the trials o...

Mar 24, 2021

Report into shooting of Indigenous man heightens desire for change in RCMP: minister

REGINA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Canadians are impatient to see action from the RCMP after a report that said officers in Saskatchewan racially discriminated against the mother o...

Mar 24, 2021

Desmond inquiry: former soldier was never given two assessments considered essential

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself in 2017 heard today from a health-care professional who said the former soldier required two...

Mar 24, 2021

Quebec deputy premier condemns rise in femicides as shelters claim underfunding

Quebec deputy premier Genevieve Guilbault held a news conference today to call for an end to violence against women, without announcing anything new to address the problem. Seven femicides have been r...

Mar 24, 2021

Worrisome COVID-19 trends reported amid new vaccine supply concerns

TORONTO - New cases of COVID-19 infections across Canada are trending upward, public health authorities reported on Wednesday in a worrisome development that comes amid new concerns over vaccine suppl...

Mar 24, 2021

Hardest hit businesses call for extension of federal wage, rent subsidies

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are facing calls from some of the hardest-hit businesses in the pandemic to use the coming budget to extend emergency relief programs beyond June, saying many will still ...

Mar 24, 2021

Canada imposes new sanctions on Russian officials over treatment of opposition leader

OTTAWA - Canada is imposing new sanctions on nine senior Russian officials in response to what Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau describes as gross and systemic human-rights abuses in the country....

Mar 24, 2021

Few Quebec 'guardian angels' who worked in health care during COVID granted residency

MONTREAL - Advocates for asylum seekers who worked in health care during the pandemic's first wave are calling on Quebec to speed up the processing of immigration applications from workers dubbed "gua...

Mar 24, 2021