Canada

Indigenous leaders condemn use of force by police to clear blockade in Ontario

TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ont. - A police operation that saw officers descend on a rail blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in central Ontario and arrest several protesters Monday seemed t...

Feb 26, 2020

Toronto blockade cleared and a slow-blooming spring; In The News for Feb. 26

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 Feb. 26 ... What...

Feb 26, 2020

Arts dean at Regina university sorry poet vilified over lecture controversy

REGINA - Emails show the University of Regina's dean of arts told George Elliott Clarke that he was sorry the acclaimed poet had been vilified over his relationship with the killer of an Ind...

Feb 26, 2020

Rail line cleared, 3 arrests made after protest in Toronto's west end: police

Toronto police say they have made three arrests after a protest emerged Tuesday evening in the city's west end as part of ongoing demonstrations in support of a British Columbia First Nation. Pol...

Feb 26, 2020

Teck withdraws application for Frontier mine, citing discourse over climate change

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. has withdrawn its application for a massive oilsands mining project just days ahead of an expected government decision, citing the political discourse over climate chan...

Feb 26, 2020

Trudeau uses speech to pitch African envoys for UN security council seat

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken Canada's campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council directly to African diplomats with a speech that tried to emphasize his boyhood con...

Feb 26, 2020

Peter Nygard steps down from company following sex assault claims

NEW YORK - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard is stepping down as chairman of his company following an FBI raid on his Manhattan headquarters over sex assault allegations. "Recognizing the prior...

Feb 26, 2020

Canadian Pacific obtains injunction to end Mohawk rail blockade in Kahnawake

MONTREAL - Canadian Pacific Railway obtained an injunction Tuesday aimed at ending a blockade erected more than two weeks ago in a Mohawk community south of Montreal. Coming a day after Kahnawake...

Feb 25, 2020

New presumptive case of novel coronavirus in Toronto, health officials say

TORONTO - A woman who arrived in Toronto from China last week has a presumptive case of the novel coronavirus, health officials said Sunday, days after announcing the last of three people previously d...

Feb 25, 2020

Massive renovation to Centre Block needs to find space for dozens more MPs

OTTAWA - The experts overseeing the massive restoration of Canada's largest Parliament building have to find out a way to cram more than 100 additional MPs into the House of Commons wit...

Feb 25, 2020