Canada

Veterans Affairs could clear application backlog in a year if it hired hundreds: PBO

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says Veterans Affairs Canada can clear its backlog of disability benefit applications in a year if it hires nearly 400 more people. The number of pending appli...

Sep 28, 2020

COVID-19 aid bill, Tory leader O'Toole's speech headline Parliament's first full week

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole and Bloc Quebecois chief Yves-Francois Blanchet are expected to take their seats in the House of Commons this week after being benched due to COVID-19. The tw...

Sep 28, 2020

Childhood lessons, fight with cancer helped John Horgan forge political goals

VICTORIA - An Indigenous leader says John Horgan would often use a joke to ease tensions during difficult times in talks over the future of fish farms between groups with different interests in Britis...

Sep 28, 2020

Parliament Hill security increased after reports of harassment

OTTAWA - The security service charged with protecting Parliament Hill says it is stepping up its presence in the area following several recent reports of harassment. The Parliamentary Protective Servi...

Sep 27, 2020

Parliament Hill security increased after reports of harassment

OTTAWA - The security service charged with protecting Parliament Hill says it is stepping up its presence in the area following several recent reports of harassment. The Parliamentary Protective Servi...

Sep 27, 2020

Visits suspended at federal prisons in Quebec to prevent potential COVID spread

MONTREAL - The Correctional Service of Canada says it is suspending visits to federal prisons in Quebec to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19. The agency says temporary absences and wo...

Sep 27, 2020

Locked-up computer systems only part of 'terrifying' ransomware scourge

TORONTO - A shadowy group of cyber criminals that attacked a prominent nursing organization and Canadian Tire store has successfully targeted other companies with clients in governments, health care, ...

Sep 27, 2020

End of CERB means uncertainty for some, new system for others

OTTAWA - In mid-March, Christine Ilott's manager broke some bad news to her: she was losing her job in live theatre as a result of the pandemic. The 47-year-old went home to her basement apartme...

Sep 27, 2020

Author says acquittal on child pornography charges allows him to 'breathe again'

A Quebec author acquitted last week of child pornography charges in connection with passages in a horror novel says he - and fiction writers across the country - can "breathe again." Yv...

Sep 27, 2020

Mi'kmaq power, inside and beyond Ottawa, stronger than in past fishery battles

HALIFAX - When Jaime Battiste was in his early 20s, cable news channels were full of images of Mi'kmaq fishermen in New Brunswick battling federal fisheries officers over seized lobster trap...

Sep 27, 2020