Canada

Feds ask for independent review of documents for St. Anne's residential school claims

Ottawa is requesting an independent review of thousands of documents detailing sexual and physical abuse of Indigenous children at St. Anne's residential school.Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Car...

Mar 18, 2021

CP NewsAlert: B.C. front-line workers to be eligible for vaccine in weeks

VICTORIA - More than 300,000 front-line workers in British Columbia will now be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations in the coming weeks. The government says grocery workers, police, firefighters, teach...

Mar 18, 2021

Conservatives kick off their virtual policy convention online

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives have kicked off a historic policy convention - not with balloons or rousing cheers, but with instructions on how to click the right links.The COVID-19 pandemic has f...

Mar 18, 2021

Meng's judge questions thoroughness of alleged 'covert criminal investigation'

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge is questioning why border officers didn't question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou more rigorously if their exam was actually a covert criminal investigation, as h...

Mar 18, 2021

Trees removed at intersection of Humboldt Broncos bus crash

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has removed a stand of trees that was near the site of the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash three years ago. Sixteen people were killed and thirteen others injure...

Mar 18, 2021

Member of military police charged in relation to racist pictures

OTTAWA - A member of Canada's military police has been charged with two counts of violating the Armed Forces' disciplinary code after allegedly spreading racist pictures. The Department of National De...

Mar 18, 2021

B.C. auto insurance rebate cheques delayed after 'criminal' cyberattack: minister

VICTORIA - The minister responsible for British Columbia's public auto insurance agency says a "criminal" cyberattack will delay COVID-19 rebate cheques that were supposed to be in the mail this week....

Mar 18, 2021

Helping Canada reach vaccine 'parity' critical to reopening border: U.S. congressman

WASHINGTON - A member of Congress says it's vital for the U.S. to help Canada reach vaccine 'parity' in order to get their shared border back open. New York Rep. Brian Higgins is cheering news of a Wh...

Mar 18, 2021

Exiled Belarusian politician urges Canada to speak out in support of democracy

OTTAWA - The exiled opposition leader of Belarus says she is an "accidental" revolutionary who threw herself into the dangerous political arena of her country only out of love for her people, husband ...

Mar 18, 2021

U.S. working on plan to lend doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada, Mexico

WASHINGTON - The White House says it is working on a plan to lend 1.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Canada and an additional 2.5 million doses to Mexico. Press secretary ...

Mar 18, 2021