Canada

Protesters abandon Quebec rail blockade after show of force by police

ST-LAMBERT, Que. - A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction. The r...

Feb 23, 2020

Amy, chasing: Klobuchar, already beating odds, faces uphill climb

WASHINGTON - It's been a running gag ever since she launched her bid to become president of the United States: Amy Klobuchar knows how to handle a Canadian winter. Not long after the Minnesota se...

Feb 23, 2020

Russian spy case documents missing or destroyed, Canada's info watchdog finds

OTTAWA - Federal officials lost or possibly destroyed sensitive records about the case of a naval officer convicted of selling secrets to Russia, an investigation by Canada's information commissi...

Feb 23, 2020

Wuhan evacuees released and bison on the lam; In The News for Feb. 21

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. 21 ... What...

Feb 23, 2020

Trudeau says time for blockades to end, Indigenous leaders to work with government

OTTAWA - Protesters have left a site south of Montreal where they had been blockading railway tracks since Wednesday. The end of the blockade Friday night followed the arrival of r...

Feb 23, 2020

B.C. money laundering inquiry to begin amid hopes for answers, accountability

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's attorney general hopes an inquiry into money laundering will answer lingering questions about how the criminal activity flourished in the province and identify those who...

Feb 23, 2020

Woman returning from Iran is B.C.'s sixth case of new coronavirus

VICTORIA - A sixth case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia after a woman in her 30s returned to the province this week from travel in Iran. Provincial health officer ...

Feb 22, 2020

Government needs to produce plan for dealing with veterans' backlog: Ombudsman

OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is urging the federal government to explain clearly how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to ...

Feb 22, 2020

Freeland agrees to NDP trade pitch in return for new NAFTA support: letter

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada's trade negotiations more "transparent," by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of ...

Feb 22, 2020

Official says she would have denied Desmond a gun licence had she known more

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier fatally shot three family members and himself heard Thursday from a firearms official who said ...

Feb 22, 2020