Category Archives: Canada

Air travellers to be checked for fevers at Canadian airports: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says air travellers will need to have their temperatures checked before they're allowed to board planes. The measure is meant to keep COVID-19 from spreadin...
Jun 12, 2020

Canada encouraging Iran to ship black boxes to France as soon as possible
OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada is eager for Iran to follow through on a new pledge to send the black boxes from the downed Ukraine Airlines jetliner to France. After more than tw...
Jun 12, 2020

Scheer wants Champagne, Trudeau to explain minister's two Chinese mortgages
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer wants Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne to explain how his holding two mortgages with a Chinese bank doesn't compromise his ability to dea...
Jun 12, 2020

Montreal police officer charged with sexual assault against Ontario woman
MONTREAL - An Ontario woman visiting Montreal last year says she was arrested, injured by police and then, hours later, sexually assaulted by an off-duty officer in her hotel room. The woman, who...
Jun 12, 2020

Supreme Court sides with B.C.'s francophone school board over education rights
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with British Columbia's francophone school board - at least in part - in a dispute over French-language education in the province. The cas...
Jun 12, 2020

'Systemic racism' in Canada reflected in health, income and other indicators
MONTREAL - For Louise Delisle, an African Nova Scotian who grew up in the rural town of Shelburne, the racism her community has experienced over the years is reflected in the health of ...
Jun 12, 2020

New video shows RCMP tackling, punching Alberta chief during arrest
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - New video has emerged of the violent arrest of a prominent chief of a northern Alberta First Nation. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says the RCMP dash-camera vid...
Jun 12, 2020

RCMP equity drive and Bell pulls Mulroney series; In The News for June 12
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 12 ... --- ...
Jun 12, 2020

RCMP workforce equity drive spun its wheels last year, new statistics indicate
OTTAWA - A drive to make the RCMP's workforce more diverse stalled last year as the Mounties struggled to become fully representative of the communities they police, newly availabl...
Jun 12, 2020

Caution abounds as Alberta eases huge raft of COVID-19 restrictions
CALGARY - Restaurateur Leslie Echino laughs at the notion that even as Alberta lifts many more COVID-19 restrictions her business could return to anywhere close to normal. Res...
Jun 12, 2020