Canada

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:15 a.m. ET on June 26, 2020: There are 102,622 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 55,079 confirm...

Jun 26, 2020

Canada's PPE supply and officer learns fate; In The News for June 26

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 26 ... What...

Jun 26, 2020

Canada almost self-sufficient in PPE as Canadian businesses step up: PM

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian companies are now producing so much personal protective equipment needed in the fight against COVID-19 that Canada is almost at the point...

Jun 26, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canadian Museum of Human Rights CEO resigns over allegations

WINNIPEG - The president and CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has resigned following recent allegations of systemic racism, discrimination and claims of sexual harassment at the Winnipeg fa...

Jun 25, 2020

Alberta probe into foreign funding of anti-oil groups extended to October

EDMONTON - Alberta's public inquiry into whether foreign money is bankrolling anti-oil protests in Canada is going into overtime. Energy Minister Sonya Savage says the initial findings from ...

Jun 25, 2020

Kenney rejects NDP call to fire speechwriter over residential school comments

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he disputes comments made by his speechwriter in 2013 that questioned the severity of the effects of residential schools on Indigenous peoples, but is...

Jun 25, 2020

Privacy commissioners in B.C., Ontario order LifeLabs to improve security

VICTORIA - One of Canada's largest medical services companies failed to put in place reasonable safeguards to protect the personal health information of millions of Canadians, say the privac...

Jun 25, 2020

University says it's making changes after crash that killed two students

VICTORIA - A report into a bus crash that killed two University of Victoria students calls for travel during daylight hours on a narrow logging road that it says should be improved by the pr...

Jun 25, 2020

It makes no sense for Mountie facing charges to be on the streets: criminologist

A criminologist with Mount Royal University in Calgary says it's ridiculous that a Mountie facing criminal charges was working on the streets during the violent arrest of a prominent First Nations chi...

Jun 25, 2020

COVID-19 increases risk for Canada's 'invisible' homeless women: study

OTTAWA - A new research project shows women experiencing homelessness in Canada are largely invisible and falling through major gaps in support systems - and into dangerous situations. The study,...

Jun 25, 2020