Canada

Champagne pushes reform in Beirut meeting with Lebanese president

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign minister pushed for Lebanon's president to pursue economic and political reforms as he expressed Canadian solidarity with the embattled Lebanese people. Foreign Affairs Minis...

Aug 27, 2020

Many students in Quebec head back to school today amid COVID-19 worries

MONTREAL - Thousands of Quebec schoolchildren are heading back to class today, putting the provincial government's controversial back-to-school plan to the test. As Montreal's French-language sch...

Aug 27, 2020

Tories ask speaking agency to release records on WE's payments to Trudeau family

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling on a speaking agency through which WE Charity paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's family to hand over all...

Aug 27, 2020

NBA protest, Quebec schools return and Hurricane Laura: In The News for Aug. 27

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 27 ... What...

Aug 27, 2020

'Fiscal reckoning': Alberta to outline $20B-plus deficit in financial update

EDMONTON - Albertans are to get a look at the province's biggest deficit in history when the government releases its financial update today. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has been warning that the...

Aug 27, 2020

Party leaders on New Brunswick's campaign trail scattered across province today

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's political party leaders are scattered across the province today for campaign announcements. Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs will be ...

Aug 27, 2020

B.C. parents encouraged to get informed about back-to-school plans

VICTORIA - Back-to-school plans have been posted online for all 60 districts in British Columbia with an aim to offer all instruction in classrooms. However, deputy education minister Scott MacDo...

Aug 26, 2020

'I thought I did something wrong:' Video shows Mountie entering home with axe

STANLEY MISSION, Sask. - The RCMP in Saskatchewan is reviewing the behaviour of an officer captured on video yelling, swearing and carrying an axe into a home where a man inside had self-harmed. Jonas...

Aug 26, 2020

'I'm angry': some parents, teachers anxious as Quebec schoolkids head back to class

MONTREAL - Olga Maria Ruiz is reluctantly sending her 11-year-old daughter back to school in Montreal this year, armed with a few extra masks and reminders not to hug her classmates and teachers. As m...

Aug 26, 2020

No grounds to charge officers in death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet:SIU

TORONTO - Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell to her death while trying to sidestep onto a neighbour's balcony, according to a report released Wednesday by Ontario's police watchdog, which concludes there ar...

Aug 26, 2020