Category Archives: Canada

'Some people were confused' about media-licensing comment, says Guilbeault
OTTAWA - The minister responsible for overhauling Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications sectors tried to reassure Canadians Monday that the federal government is not preparing to license n...
Feb 05, 2020

Air Canada plane lands safely in Madrid after tire rupture, engine issue
An Air Canada jet landed safely in Madrid Monday after engine trouble and a blown tire forced pilots to declare an emergency shortly after takeoff. The Toronto-bound Boeing 767-300 carrying ...
Feb 05, 2020

Ontario coronavirus investigations seem to be tapering off, official says
TORONTO - The number of people being tested for the novel coronavirus in Ontario seems to be dropping as more time passes since China imposed rigid travel restrictions, the province's chief medical of...
Feb 05, 2020

Lionel Desmond offered bed on psychiatric ward, fatality inquiry told
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia has heard that the night a mentally ill former soldier sought help at a hospital in Antigonish, N.S., there were beds available in ...
Feb 05, 2020

Send black boxes from Iran plane crash to France, Champagne demands
OTTAWA - Canada's foreign minister says he's asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752. F...
Feb 05, 2020

Probe begins after former hockey player killed during Quebec police intervention
ST-GEORGES, Que. - Quebec's independent police watchdog is investigating after a former hockey player who toiled for several years in a Quebec minor league was killed in ...
Feb 05, 2020

Non-citizen parents allowed to return home with Canadian children from Wuhan
OTTAWA - The Liberal government insisted China let parents and other primary caregivers accompany their Canadian children after leaving Wuhan, the epicentre of an outbreak of the novel coron...
Feb 05, 2020

Green party's leadership race rules, entry fee has some candidates balking
OTTAWA - The Green party's leadership contest is getting off to a rough start with at least three people reconsidering a run after the party established a $50,000 entry fee and a secretive v...
Feb 05, 2020

Putin remains coy on future and Trump plans to run, and win; In The News for Feb. 5
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. 5 ... What ...
Feb 05, 2020

Cyberspies mistakenly eyed Canadian for five years, watchdog report says
OTTAWA - The national cyberspying agency monitored a Canadian citizen, contrary to policy, for several years due to a series of internal mistakes, a newly released watchdog report says....
Feb 05, 2020