Category Archives: Canada

Kanesatake chief retracts rail blockade comments after community uproar
KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec retracted comments Wednesday about the possibility of ongoing rail blockades coming down - words that didn't go over well with members of his own comm...
Feb 21, 2020

Blockade on CN rail line in Edmonton removed, injunction granted
EDMONTON - A blockade set up on a Canadian National rail line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs was being dismantled - at least temporarily - Wednesday ...
Feb 21, 2020

Case of alleged RCMP secret-leaker could head behind closed doors
OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are signalling they want to move the national-secrets case against a senior RCMP official behind closed doors, at least temporarily, while they sort out how to handle...
Feb 21, 2020

Privacy watchdogs to probe Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology
OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearvie...
Feb 21, 2020

Desmond inquiry hears his firearms licence was reinstated despite police run-ins
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - Lionel Desmond's licence to buy and possess guns was placed under review by firearms officials in New Brunswick in 2014 and again 2015, an inquiry into the...
Feb 21, 2020

Diamond Princess evacuees arrive for quarantine in Canada
OTTAWA - A plane carrying 129 Canadians and their families who have spent weeks confined to cabins aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan landed on Canadian soil this morning. The for...
Feb 21, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern): 10:13 Police south of Montreal are patrolling an ongoing blockade ...
Feb 21, 2020

Lawyer for Quebec couple urges court to act against ultra-Orthodox schools
MONTREAL - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools operating north of Montreal are illegal and their religious curriculum for boys is so onerous the students have little time to study anything el...
Feb 21, 2020

Quebec protesters maintain rail blockade a day after court ordered it taken down
ST-LAMBERT, Que. - About two dozen protesters remain at a blockade south of Montreal in defiance of an injunction delivered Thursday ordering them to leave the site and stop disrupting rail traffic. P...
Feb 21, 2020

Canadians from coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan to fly home Thursday: Champagne
Canadians who have spent weeks on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan will board a government-chartered plane to take them home Thursday evening, the foreign affairs minist...
Feb 21, 2020