Canada

Feds provide more funds to help remote Indigenous communities cope with pandemic

OTTAWA - The federal government is to spend millions more to help remote and rural Indigenous communities cope with the COVID-19 crisis. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce today sig...

May 29, 2020

Supreme Court to clarify police entrapment issues in drug-dealing cases

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is slated to spell out what amounts to police entrapment today when it rules on a pair of drug cases. In each case, Toronto police were acting on tips to inve...

May 29, 2020

Liberal MPs call for national standards for long-term care homes

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau is being pressured by some of his own Liberal backbenchers to implement enforceable national standards for the operation of long-term care homes in Canada. The pressure came Th...

May 28, 2020

Alberta NDP mocks UCP for taking COVID cash from 'sugar daddy' Trudeau

EDMONTON - The Alberta Opposition says Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservatives have a new "sugar daddy" in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and should not accept a federal COVID-1...

May 28, 2020

Canada's vulnerable to money laundering on par with similar countries: expert

VANCOUVER - A senior police officer from the United Kingdom who specializes in money laundering says he believes Canada is no more vulnerable to the crime than other Western jurisd...

May 28, 2020

Oilpatch advocates tell MPs help needs to be faster, easier to get

OTTAWA - Representatives from Canada's oilpatch say they don't know of a single energy company that has yet benefited from any of Ottawa's COVID-19-inspired loan programs. Several company ow...

May 28, 2020

Warrant issued for arrest of former PQ leader Boisclair on sex assault charges

MONTREAL - A warrant has been issued for the arrest of former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair on charges that he used a weapon to commit a sexual assault. The warrant signed by a Quebec co...

May 28, 2020

Families give up on province, hope for police probe of care home east of Toronto

A "disturbing" military report into conditions at a long-term care home east of Toronto has given families of loved ones who died of COVID-19 there hope that police will investigate. Some families sai...

May 28, 2020

Dysfunction in long-term care takes toll on overburdened workforce: association

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Support Workers Association says conditions in long-term care are "breaking" the people who staff nursing and retirement, leading to worse care for the vulnerable sen...

May 28, 2020

Feds, Quebec launch talks on keeping military in long-term care facilities

Ottawa and Quebec have started talking about the future of military in long-term care homes after the province called for the Canadian Armed Forces to stay in nearly two dozen facilities unt...

May 28, 2020