Category Archives: Canada

Winnipeg police defend kicking suspect during arrest, release video
Winnipeg police are defending their actions and reaching out to Indigenous leaders after a video surfaced showing officers kneeing and kicking a man during an arrest. A blurry, 74-second video po...
Jun 12, 2020

A list of police encounters being questioned and investigated in Canada
The death last month of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who was killed when an officer kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes, has sparked demonstrations against police brutality and rac...
Jun 12, 2020

Witness said killer in N.S. mass shooting 'recently' acquired gun from estate
HALIFAX - A portion of a witness statement released Friday says the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia had "recently" acquired one of his firearms in Canada from the estate of a...
Jun 12, 2020

Canadian expert says he is confident COVID-19 vaccine is months, not years away
OTTAWA - One of Canada's preeminent infectious disease experts says he is confident a vaccine for COVID-19 will be ready in months, not years. Dr. Gary Kobinger, director of the Research Cen...
Jun 12, 2020

CSIS knowledge of multi-hour delay in Meng's arrest 'troubling': lawyers
Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are alleging that Canada's national spy agency was in on a plan for border officers to detain the Huawei executive for hours before her arrest at Vancouver's airport...
Jun 12, 2020

'Egregious' police tactics harming Black and Indigenous people: activist
Emerging evidence of violent police encounters shows some police tactics are "so egregious" that they're doing more harm than any possible good, says a Canadian activist. Sandy Hudson, a founder ...
Jun 12, 2020

Frustration grows with no apparent end in sight for Canada-U.S. border ban
WASHINGTON - Business groups and border communities that depend on traffic across the Canada-U.S. border are growing impatient with travel restrictions that appear poised to stretch into a fourth stra...
Jun 12, 2020

Canada rebuts UN Security Council critics as Champagne to NYC for final push
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is bound for New York City to join the final push for Canada's campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Champagne ...
Jun 12, 2020

Feds, farmers, remain far apart over impact of carbon tax on grain growers
OTTAWA - The federal government says its analysis of the impact the carbon tax is having on grain farmers is based on numbers provided by the farmers themselves. But grain farmers are adaman...
Jun 12, 2020

CMHC re-assessing policies through a racialized lens to eliminate discrimination
OTTAWA - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says it will re-assess all of its policies and practices through a racialized lens in an effort to eliminate discrimination. In a statement today, the federa...
Jun 12, 2020