Canada

Ejection seat tangled with parachute in Snowbirds crash: Investigators

OTTAWA - A military investigation has found the ejection seat of one of its iconic Snowbirds planes tangled with the pilot's parachute as he tried to escape from the aircraft before it crashed in the ...

Jun 29, 2020

Buzzing through air and space: New species of bee named after Canadian astronaut

REGINA - A Saskatchewan scientist has named a new species of bee after Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Cory Sheffield says he came across a unique looking female bee while cataloguing insect s...

Jun 29, 2020

New models show COVID-19 progress but with 'hotspots' to monitor: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says new federal models show continued progress in suppressing COVID-19, but with significant hotspots. He says the restrictions Canadians have lived with throug...

Jun 29, 2020

Democracies must unite to share intel in disinformation fight, LeBlanc says

WASHINGTON - The federal minister in charge of Canada's electoral integrity says democracies around the world have a lot to teach each other about how best to combat online disinformation. N...

Jun 29, 2020

N.L. liquor corp. to change "Old Sam" logo over concerns about racist branding

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corp. says it will change the logo - but keep the name - of a locally bottled rum brand that appears to depict a laughing Black man. T...

Jun 29, 2020

Asylum-seekers who tried to cross from U.S. last month turned back

OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency says it turned back 21 people who tried to enter the country from the U.S. in May to claim asylum. The CBSA says 17 were sent back to the U.S. from the Quebe...

Jun 29, 2020

A look at how provinces plan to emerge from COVID-19 shutdown

Provinces and territories have been releasing plans for easing restrictions that were put in place to limit the spread of COVID-19. Here is what some of the provinces have announced so far: Newfo...

Jun 29, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00.am. on June 29, 2020: There are 103,250 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 55,079 confirmed (including 5,448 deaths, 23,786 resolv...

Jun 29, 2020

A call for repatriation and slices of pandemic life; In The News for June 29

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 June 29. What we are watching in Canada ... OT...

Jun 29, 2020

B.C. teenager photographs personal experiences of people around the world

VANCOUVER - A 17-year-old British Columbia student has been documenting the personal experiences of strangers around the world during this pandemic one photograph at a time. Asalah Youssef of Lan...

Jun 29, 2020