Canada

Greens likely to hold virtual leadership convention due to pandemic: May

OTTAWA - Former Green party leader Elizabeth May says she does not expect the party's leadership and policy convention to happen as planned in Prince Edward Island this fall because of COVID-19. ...

Jun 03, 2020

Meng hearing schedule to expand; lawyers ask for 'referee' in case

VANCOUVER - Legal arguments at the B.C. Supreme Court in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou may stretch into next year. Crown lawyer Robert Frater told the court...

Jun 03, 2020

More Arctic politicians join call for RCMP to wear body cameras in Nunavut

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The mayor of Iqaluit is joining other Arctic leaders calling for RCMP members in Nunavut to wear body cameras. Kenny Bell says in a release that cameras would make law enforcem...

Jun 03, 2020

Garneau expands required use of face masks on planes, trains, ships and transit

OTTAWA - Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau is expanding the required use of face coverings on planes, trains, ships and transit to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Effective at noon on Thursd...

Jun 03, 2020

Military ends mission to recover Cyclone helicopter crash wreckage, remains

HALIFAX - The Canadian Armed Forces has ended its mission to recover the wreckage of the Cyclone helicopter that crashed off the coast of Greece in April. Maritime Component commander Rear-Admiral Cra...

Jun 03, 2020

Trudeau government given failing grade for lack of action plan on MMIWG

OTTAWA - A national advocacy organization that fights for Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people is giving the federal government a failing grade for not delivering national actio...

Jun 03, 2020

'Even if no one is watching:' Parade marshal named for cancelled Stampede

CALGARY - Filipe Masetti Leite has spent a lot of alone time in the saddle criss-crossing countries on horseback over the last eight years. The latest journey for the long rider - ...

Jun 03, 2020

If Trudeau won't stand up to Trump, how will regular people: Singh

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has accused the prime minister of hypocrisy for calling on Canadians to do more to combat racism but refusing to condemn inflammatory remarks by U.S. President D...

Jun 03, 2020

As some protesters in D.C. gird for battle, others provide first aid, supplies

WASHINGTON - Moving among the pulsing mass of angry activism outside the White House, a handful of people are on hand to provide help and first aid to police and protesters alike. Morris Crawford...

Jun 03, 2020

Joint inquiry or review into mass killing is taking shape: justice minister

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's justice minister says there will be a joint federal-provincial inquiry or review into the mass killing in April that claimed 22 lives, but the exact form of that inve...

Jun 03, 2020