Canada

Racism not ruled out as motive in unprovoked tripping of Burnaby, B.C., senior

BURNABY, B.C. - Police in Metro Vancouver are searching for a woman who casually approached a senior who was using a walker, tripped her from behind and walked away. Burnaby RCMP have releas...

May 29, 2020

Large cruise ships barred from Canadian waters until end of October: Garneau

OTTAWA - The cruise-ship season in Canada is all but dead as Ottawa extends a ban on ships in Canadian waters until the end of October. Transportation Minister Marc Garneau says passenger ships w...

May 29, 2020

Another $650M in COVID-19 aid bound for Indigenous communities

OTTAWA - Federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the federal government will spend another $650 million to help Indigenous communities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Of this, $285 mill...

May 29, 2020

Garneau says still no black boxes from Iran in January shootdown of airliner

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau says efforts are still underway to get Iran to release the flight recorders from its Jan. 8 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane. On March 1...

May 29, 2020

As police, protesters clash in Minneapolis, Twitter blocks Trump's 'thug' tweet

WASHINGTON - The peace of America's self-imposed COVID-19 exile has given way in dramatic fashion to violent unrest in the city of Minneapolis and across the United States as prote...

May 29, 2020

Statistics Canada says Q1 GDP worst showing since 2009

OTTAWA - Canada's economy had its worst quarterly showing since 2009 through the first three months of 2020, and may be headed to an even steeper drop, as steps taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 fo...

May 29, 2020

Hospice's refusal to provide assisted death causes 'anxiety,' says B.C. mayor

DELTA, B.C. - A hospice that has a long history of helping people near death but denies them medical assistance in dying is drawing criticism from the city's mayor in a clash of ideologies t...

May 29, 2020

USMCA poised for star turn and protests in Minneapolis; In The News for May 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 May 29 ... --- C...

May 29, 2020

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

Provinces 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: Newfoundland and Labrador ...

May 29, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on May 29, 2020: There are 88,512 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 49,702 confirmed (includ...

May 29, 2020