Canada

U.S. trade authorities keeping tabs on Canada's coming changes to drug prices

WASHINGTON - The United States is keeping Canada on its "watch list" of countries where policies and practices could pose a threat to American intellectual property rights. In its annual report on for...

May 01, 2020

Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of 'military-style' guns

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is banning a range of assault-style guns, with an order that takes effect immediately.The cabinet order he describes doesn't forbid o...

May 01, 2020

Recovery efforts begin with businesses after major flooding in Fort McMurray

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A recovery plan is in place in northern Alberta after major flooding forced 13,000 people from their homes in Fort McMurray. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo says in a ...

May 01, 2020

Wet'suwet'en pact with Ottawa and B.C. disputed by elected chiefs

SMITHERS, B.C. - Elected chiefs of a First Nation that's split over a natural gas pipeline through their territories say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary ...

May 01, 2020

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Morneau names Tiff Macklem new Bank of Canada governor

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau is naming Tiff Macklem the new governor of the Bank of Canada. The dean of the business school at the University of Toronto is a former senior deputy governor of...

May 01, 2020

C.D. Howe's Business Cycle Council says country has entered a recession

TORONTO - The C.D. Howe Institute's Business Cycle Council says Canada has entered a recession due to the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report released Friday, the council...

May 01, 2020

COVID-19 threat to Indigenous people and quaratine stream; In The News for May 1

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 1 ... --- COVID-1...

May 01, 2020

COVID-19 threat to First Nations, Inuit communities grows as it eases elsewhere

OTTAWA - The federal government will be under pressure today to explain what it's doing to prevent COVID-19 from spreading like wildfire through First Nations reserves and remote Inuit commu...

May 01, 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 1, 2020: There are 53,236 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 27,538 confirme...

May 01, 2020

China likes Canada's 'cool head' amid U.S. 'smears' over COVID-19, says envoy

OTTAWA - China's envoy in Ottawa says that while the United States is "smearing" his country over COVID-19, the People's Republic appreciates Canada's "cool-headed" co-operation on battling the pandem...

May 01, 2020