Category Archives: The Canadian Press
Ostrich farm rallies support as court says it will decide next week if it hears case
Canada's highest court says it will rule next Thursday whether to tackle a bitter dispute between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and a British Columbia ostrich farm over the ordered destruction o...
Oct 31, 2025
Quebec order of physicians urges government to suspend controversial doctor-pay law
MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians has called for an immediate suspension of a provincial law that ties doctors' pay to performance targets and threatens punitive damages over action...
Oct 31, 2025
Ohio panel and Virginia lawmakers move forward with congressional redistricting plans
An Ohio panel adopted new U.S. House districts on Friday that could boost the GOP's chances of winning two additional seats in next year's elections and aid President Donald Trump's efforts to hold on...
Oct 31, 2025
Former refugee believes she wouldn't have been able to stay with proposed border bill
OTTAWA - A trans woman does not believe she would have been able to stay in Canada if the refugee rules outlined in the government's new border bill were in effect. Asya Medea came to Canada in 2018 o...
Oct 31, 2025
Canadiens, Alouettes fans out of luck as transit network paralyzed by strike Saturday
MONTREAL - Montreal sporting fans who had planned on taking public transit to major events on Saturday are out of luck, as the union representing thousands of bus and metro drivers will walk off the j...
Oct 31, 2025
Mandatory minimum child pornography sentences unconstitutional, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - The one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Friday. In a 5-4 decision, the top court...
Oct 31, 2025
People 'generally' support advance MAID requests before decision-making capacity lost: report
TORONTO - A new Health Canada report says people surveyed about medical assistance in dying "generally" support allowing patients who will lose their decision-making capacity to give advance consent. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Advocates allege ‘inhumane’ conditions at Chicago-area ICE facility in new lawsuit
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois advocates sued federal authorities Friday over alleged "inhumane" conditions at a Chicago-area immigration facility. Attorneys with the ACLU of Illinois and the MacArthur Justi...
Oct 31, 2025
Weak GDP report unlikely to sway Bank of Canada to more rate cuts: economists
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy was showing more cracks in August, but most economists weighing in on the latest data say they don't think the Bank of Canada will respond with more rate cuts anytime soo...
Oct 31, 2025
UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are "u...
Oct 31, 2025