Canada

Opioid deaths highlight need to decriminalize hard-drug possession, police chiefs say

TORONTO - The scourge of overdose deaths underscores the need for Canada to decriminalize simple possession of hard drugs, the head of the national chiefs of police association said on Thursday. In ur...

Jan 28, 2021

CP NewsAlert: Police officer who shot and killed Winnipeg girl will not face charges

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg police officer will not be criminally charged for the fatal shooting of a teen last spring. A report from Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit says it consulted with provinc...

Jan 28, 2021

Concordia University says lectures from dead professor were 'teaching tool'

MONTREAL - Concordia University says there should have been no confusion about who was teaching an online class after a student said he was surprised to discover the professor delivering the video lec...

Jan 28, 2021

Court says B.C.'s Surrey Six killers can argue abuse of process, while guilt affirmed

VANCOUVER - Two men found guilty of killing six people in British Columbia's most notorious gang slayings will be allowed a hearing to argue their claims of abuse of process, but their guilty verdicts...

Jan 28, 2021

New trial ordered for N.S. booking officers convicted in jail cell death case

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for two special constables convicted of criminal negligence in the suffocation death of an inmate at a Halifax police lockup. The thre...

Jan 28, 2021

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine allocations to Canada already assuming six doses per vial

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech are already assuming Canada will agree its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain six doses instead of five and are using that to project how many vials it will send Canada in the...

Jan 28, 2021

Quebec City mosque co-founder decries lack of federal progress on curbing handguns

OTTAWA - The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six people were killed and many others injured four years ago this week laments the lack of federal progress on handgun control in a new letter ...

Jan 28, 2021

It's time for a First Nations person to be governor general: Bellegarde

OTTAWA - Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says it's time for Canada to have a First Nations governor general now that Julie Payette has resigned from the role. The national chief of t...

Jan 28, 2021

Report recommends against basic income in British Columbia, saying it's no cure-all

VANCOUVER - A government-commissioned panel is recommending against the introduction of a basic income for all in British Columbia. The panel's report, co-authored by academics at the University of B....

Jan 28, 2021

Ontario awaits new COVID-19 modelling; Quebec reports exceptional rise in deaths

Ontario is awaiting the first COVID-19 projections since a stay-at-home order came into effect two weeks ago. Canada's most populous province reported 2,093 new infections today and 56 more deaths lin...

Jan 28, 2021