Canada

Federal government lawyer asks judge to dismiss youths' climate change lawsuit

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the Canadian government says a lawsuit filed by 15 youth across the country should be dismissed because their claims about the harms of climate change are too broad. Joseph Ch...

Sep 30, 2020

Ontario releases new COVID-19 modelling as Quebec braces for new restrictions

MONTREAL - Health officials in Ontario said today that further measures could be coming to fight COVID-19, as neighbouring Quebec prepares to shut down bars, restaurants and most in-home gatherings in...

Sep 30, 2020

Green leadership results tainted by fundraising disaster, candidate says

OTTAWA - Green leadership candidates are digging into their own fundraising data today after their party acknowledged Tuesday it hadn't properly forwarded all donations to one candidate. The Green par...

Sep 30, 2020

Debate about televised political debates heats up after presidential 'dumpster fire'

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Hot mess, dumpster fire, train wreck: the reviews of the presidential debate are in, and they're not good. So universally condemned was Tuesday's televised clash, it is fuell...

Sep 30, 2020

Tories and Bloc say they supported COVID-19 aid package to help Canadians

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives and Bloc Qubcois say they voted in favour of the Liberal government's new financial-aid package for workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because Canadians need ...

Sep 30, 2020

Blanchet, O'Toole return to Parliament, urge Canadians to guard against COVID-19

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet says he is lucky to have caught a mild case of COVID-19, but that many Canadians aren't so lucky, which is why everyone needs to keep their guard up...

Sep 30, 2020

Judge urged to keep Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing moving

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is trying to fight their case against charges she faces in the United States in a Canadian co...

Sep 30, 2020

Statistics Canada to unveil GDP reading for July

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will say today how the economy fared in July with expectations that it grew, albeit at a slower pace than in June. The average economist estimate for GDP growth in July is t...

Sep 30, 2020

COVID-19 cases rising in Indigenous communities

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous communities have been facing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks. Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been re...

Sep 30, 2020

Quebec's second wave driven by community transmission, muddled messaging, expert says

MONTREAL - Quebecers following the COVID-19 news in recent days may be feeling a certain sense of deja vu. The government has been announcing 700, 800, even close to 900 new cases per day - numbers no...

Sep 30, 2020