Canada

Liberals using interpreter shortage to dodge accountability, Conservatives allege

OTTAWA - Federal Conservatives say the Liberals are using a pandemic-induced shortage of translators to shut down House of Commons committees when they raise issues that cause the government discomfor...

Feb 19, 2021

Survivors say Pornhub's indifference to exploitive videos traumatized them

OTTAWA - A parliamentary committee is hearing from women who say they were traumatized when Pornhub refused to act on exploitive videos posted to its website. Three witnesses before the House of Commo...

Feb 19, 2021

Feds seek fourth extension to update assisted-dying law

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is seeking a fourth extension to the court-imposed deadline for expanding access to medical assistance in dying. Justice Minister David Lametti is asking the court to g...

Feb 19, 2021

Businesses that opened during pandemic lament lack of access to government aid

OTTAWA - The sounds of baseballs hitting bats and gloves are fewer these days at Robert Johnston's training centre in Toronto because of public health restrictions. Since last March, the federal gover...

Feb 19, 2021

Harjit Sajjan says he has always acted promptly on sexual misconduct allegations

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is declining to talk about when he first became aware of allegations of sexual misconduct against the former chief of the defence staff, but the minister assure...

Feb 19, 2021

Search on for Ontario judge to succeed Justice Rosalie Abella on Supreme Court

OTTAWA - The hunt is on for a new judge to sit on Canada's highest court, in preparation for the mandatory retirement of Justice Rosalie Abella. Abella, the longest-serving Supreme Court justice, will...

Feb 19, 2021

Pfizer to ask Health Canada to adjust rules to say vaccine safe in regular freezers

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech say their COVID-19 vaccine can now safely be stored in regular freezers for up to two weeks, potentially easing some of the difficulty getting the vaccine distributed outs...

Feb 19, 2021

Ex-Saudi spy urges Canadian court to free up assets; says he's victim of death plot

TORONTO - A former top intelligence agent who alleges Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler sent a hit squad to Canada to kill him urged a court on Friday to free up his assets, saying the judge who froze the...

Feb 19, 2021

Extra weeks to be added to COVID-19 benefits for workers, parents, Trudeau says

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is adding 12 weeks of eligibility to two key benefits for unemployed workers and parents at home with children. The extra life for th...

Feb 19, 2021

'He saw dead people.' Inquiry learns about the mental decline of Lionel Desmond

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - Lionel Desmond experienced severe mental decline and horrible visions after he served as an infantryman in the Afghanistan war, a fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia learned Friday...

Feb 19, 2021