Canada

PBO to report on cost of revamped CERB as MPs meet to debate changes

OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog will detail today the possible costs associated with extending and changing the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. Budget officer Yves Giroux's report scheduled...

Jun 10, 2020

'Almost complete loss' of early salmon runs at Fraser River slide last year: DFO

OTTAWA - Early runs of Stuart and Chinook salmon were devastated last year because they couldn't make it past a massive landslide on British Columbia's Fraser River. Officials with...

Jun 09, 2020

Halifax rejects armoured vehicle purchase for police, shifts money to anti-racism

Halifax council has voted in favour of rescinding the purchase of a police armoured vehicle and will instead allocate the money to efforts aimed at reducing anti-Black racism....

Jun 09, 2020

Small Alberta town in spotlight over planned Black Lives Matter event

INNISFAIL, Alta. - A central Alberta mayor says his town has been caught off guard by all the attention it's received over an anti-racism event planned for the weekend. The organizer of a Bl...

Jun 09, 2020

Pursue Iran in international court over shootdown: victims' family spokesman

OTTAWA - A Canadian spokesman for families and loved ones who were killed in Iran's Jan. 8 shootdown of a Ukrainian airliner says the regime is waging psychological warfare against them by refusing to...

Jun 09, 2020

Experts say not enough proof expensive body cameras will reduce police violence

Ottawa is considering outfitting Canadian police with cameras following protests against violence by some officers, but experts say there is not enough proof the expensive technology is effective. "Th...

Jun 09, 2020

Divorce reforms delayed as experts brace for post-pandemic surge in divorces

OTTAWA - Family law experts say the delay in implementing reforms to Canada's Divorce Act is particularly untimely - coming just as they're bracing for a surge of women seeking divorces...

Jun 09, 2020

NewsAlert: Alberta to reopen theatres, casinos, churches on Friday

EDMONTON - Alberta plans to reopen movie theatres, gyms, pools, libraries, casinos and churches on Friday, a week earlier than planned. Premier Jason Kenney says the province has been doing well in it...

Jun 09, 2020

Conviction for teen 'swatter' stands despite length of case, court rules

TORONTO - The conviction of a teenager for the hideous practise of "swatting" must stand even though it took three years from his arrest to completion of his trial, Ontario's top court ruled on Tuesda...

Jun 09, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 2:08 p.m. on June 9, 2020: There are 96,614 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 53,185 confirmed (includ...

Jun 09, 2020