Category Archives: National
B.C. helps fund searches for Indigenous remains
VANCOUVER — The B.C. government says it will provide immediate funding to 21 First Nation communities to help with searches for human remains at former residential schools or hospitals. Murray Rankin, the minister of Indigenous relations and reconcili...
Canadian Press NewsAlert: WestJet wraps talks with Ottawa, not seeking federal aid
CALGARY — WestJet says it is not seeking financial aid from the federal government after months of talks between Ottawa and the airline. It says each party has agreed to shift focus to restarting the travel and tourism sector, given encouraging
Mark Carney says climate commitments preclude running in fall election
OTTAWA — Mark Carney won't be on the Liberal ticket if there's an election this fall. The former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England told The Canadian Press he's made commitments to help in the global
Civil liberties group joins court challenge to end unfounded traffic stops in Quebec
MONTREAL — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association announced Tuesday it will join in a constitutional challenge in Quebec of police powers to carry out roadside checks without reasonable cause. The case involves Joseph-Christopher Luamba, a Montreal m...
Feds looking into Muslim charities’ concerns: PM
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is "extremely concerned" about recent reports that Muslim charities are being unfairly targeted for federal audits and sanctions. Trudeau told a news conference Tuesday the Liberal government i...
Challenges at southern border may be drag on efforts to reopen Canada-U.S. frontier
WASHINGTON — Canadians wondering why the United States doesn't appear to be rushing to ease travel restrictions at their shared border should cast a gaze further south, where the frontier with Mexico fosters far thornier political questions for the Whi...
Government expects foreign states’ wariness of mix-and-max vaccination to ‘evolve’
OTTAWA — Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc is sounding a note of hope that Canadians who mixed and matched COVID-19 vaccines will not have a problem crossing borders in the months ahead. While Canadian health authorities say recipients...
Liberals, MPs urged not to unwind easing of tax rules on sale of family businesses
OTTAWA — MPs on the House of Commons finance committee have heard a plea from the country's farmers that the government's plans to rewrite tax laws shouldn't make it difficult, again, to pass the family farm from parents to children. Farmers
Liberals add $1.4 billion to climate change mitigation fund: McKenna
OTTAWA — Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government is adding almost $1.4 billion to the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund this year to help communities across Canada facing climate change and environmental disasters. ...
Canada Child Benefits gets mini bump in payments with pandemic playing a role
OTTAWA — Canadian families are seeing the lowest annual increase in federal child benefits since payments were tied to inflation as the pandemic has weighed on price growth over the last year. The government announced Tuesday that Canada Child Benefit ...
