Canada

Cities ask Liberals for up to $15B to stave off COVID-19 budget crisis

OTTAWA - A group representing Canada's cities says municipal budgets are on the brink of financial crisis due to COVID-19 unless the federal government gives billions of dollars in help...

Apr 23, 2020

Provinces, feds will watch and learn from U.S. reopening efforts, PM suggests

WASHINGTON - Canada's federal and provincial governments will be watching closely for teachable moments as jurisdictions in the United States start to lift personal restrictions and reopen b...

Apr 23, 2020

Scheer refuses to acknowledge MP's controversial criticism of health officer

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has refused to address controversial comments by a member of his caucus who is also seeking to replace him as leader. Derek Sloan, a rookie MP from rural Ont...

Apr 23, 2020

Canada's COVID death toll passes 2,000; Trudeau pledges $1.1B for research

TORONTO - Canada's COVID-19 death toll passed the 2,000 mark on Thursday as scientists across the country scrambled to find ways to mitigate the pandemic in the form of a treatment or vaccine and...

Apr 23, 2020

Trudeau says military short-term solution to caring for seniors

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the military will respond to provincial requests for assistance at long-term care facilities. But he says the measure is a short-term solution and that Cana...

Apr 23, 2020

Feds pour $1.1B into COVID-19 vaccine development, tracking of cases

OTTAWA - The federal government will spend more than $1 billion to help develop, test and manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as to determine how widely the virus has spread through Canada, P...

Apr 23, 2020

Federal prison tensions rise amid COVID lockdowns; activists want releases

TORONTO - Efforts to contain the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Canada's federal prisons have led to an increase in tensions that have prompted correctional officers to use force on at least two occasion...

Apr 23, 2020

Nova Scotia RCMP officers shot at rural fire hall during search for killer

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating why two RCMP officers started shooting at a fire hall while a killer disguised as a Mountie was on the loose. Pat Curran, interi...

Apr 23, 2020

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 10:25 a.m. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is asking the federal government to give local governments bill...

Apr 23, 2020

Supreme Court will not hear appeal challenging law on succession to the throne

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a bid to throw out a law that modified the rules governing succession to the throne. The Canadian law stems from a 2011 agreement among Commonwealth ...

Apr 23, 2020