Category Archives: National
Canadians’ trips to liquor stores, pharmacies tracked via phones during pandemic
OTTAWA — Canadians' movements, including trips to the liquor store and pharmacy, were closely tracked via their mobile phones without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report sent to a parliamentary committee shows. Outbreak intelligence ...
Alghabra says logistical challenges delaying charter flights for Ukrainian refugees
OTTAWA — Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says Canadian airlines are standing by to help bring charter flights of Ukrainian refugees to Canada as soon as some logistical hurdles are overcome. More than five million Ukrainians fled their home country to...
‘Colonialism and cucumbers’: Governor General gets lukewarm reception in Quebec
QUEBEC — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, the first Indigenous person named as the Queen's representative in Canada, still has some work to do on her French, Quebec Premier François Legault said Thursday. Legault made the comments to reporters a day after
Firefighters say recognition of cancer risk is tough battle, especially in Quebec
VANCOUVER — Jenn Dawkins remembers the spring day in 2016 when she joined four other female firefighters at British Columbia's legislature to lobby for the inclusion of breast cancer as a presumed occupational illness covered by the province's health a...
Conservative leadership candidates spar over COVID mandates, trucker convoy, Huawei
OTTAWA — Longtime Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre and Jean Charest, Quebec's former premier, took turns attacking one another's political records Thursday in the first unofficial debate in the Tory leadership race. Poilievre, who's campaigning on a p...
Financial intelligence agency highlights criminal risks of underground banking
OTTAWA — Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning that unregistered money-transfer services are ripe for abuse by criminals trying to launder cash and fund terrorist activities. In a new advisory on the risks of underground banking, the Financ...
Not ‘fuddle-duddle:’ Conservatives accuse Trudeau of swearing in Parliament
OTTAWA — Much has been made of the political legacy Justin Trudeau has to live up to as he follows in the footsteps of his father, a former prime minister. On Wednesday, he invoked one of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most memorable
Hateful rhetoric driven by extremism becoming ‘normalized,’ CSIS director warns
OTTAWA — The head of Canada's spy agency says the hateful rhetoric associated with ideologically motivated extremism is becoming "normalized" and is seeping into the mainstream. Speaking at the University of British Columbia, Canadian Security Intellig...
Mass shooting inquiry: Lawyer calls for witnesses to sort out discrepancies over guns
HALIFAX — The inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia was asked today to sort out conflicting evidence about how the RCMP responded to a woman who says she alerted police years ago to the killer's arsenal of
Military dealing with gap in search-and-rescue services due to new procurement delay
OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Air Force is relocating two aircraft from Winnipeg to Vancouver Island to address a gap in Canada’s search-and-rescue coverage, the result of yet another delay in Canada’s troubled military procurement system. Air Force comm...