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Police declined to give further details, citing an ongoing investigation

Toronto police kill man carrying gun near schools

Toronto police shot and killed a man who was walking down a street carrying a gun yesterday afternoon, an incident that prompted five nearby schools to be placed under precautionary lockdowns, city officials said.

World • 27 May 22

has already extended its Canada has jurisdiction over criminal acts committed by Canadian astronauts during space travel to the International Space Station

Canada to prosecute crimes on the Moon

Canadian politicians have passed an amendment to the nation's Criminal Code to allow for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon.

World • 28 Apr 22

Pope Francis met survivors from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit groups at the Vatican this week

Pope Francis apologises to Canadian indigenous people

Pope Francis has apologised to Canadian indigenous people for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools that sought to erase their cultures and where many children were abused.

World • 01 Apr 22

A sign at a maple syrup farm during the Maple Sugar Festival in Mount Albert, Ontario earlier this month

Man fined €6.5m over 'great Canadian maple syrup heist'

The man behind a decade-old maple syrup heist will have to pay a C$9m (€6.5m) fine, Canada's top court has said, upholding an earlier ruling by a lower court.

News Lens • 31 Mar 22

A major cleanup was underway in Ottawa's snowy downtown

Police reclaim Canada capital after trucker siege ends

The last big rigs were being towed out of Canada's capital today, where the streets were quiet for the first time in three weeks after a massive police operation ended a drawn-out siege over Covid-19 health rules.

World • 20 Feb 22

Police face off with demonstrators in Ottawa

Police clearing Ottawa protests say 47 arrested

Police in riot gear have cleared the main protest hub in downtown Ottawa, using batons and pepper spray and making dozens of arrests, as they worked to flush out a hard core of demonstrators occupying the Canadian capital.

World • 19 Feb 22

Flags fly at half-mast at the Port Authority in Marin, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, earlier this week

Spain urges Canada to resume search for shipwreck crew

Spain's top diplomat has urged Canada to resume its search for the bodies of 12 sailors missing, presumed drowned, after one of its fishing trawlers sank off Newfoundland.

World • 18 Feb 22

Demonstrators appeared to dig in after a heavy snowfall, playing cheerful music and waving Canadian flags at the ends of hockey sticks

Police move in to clear trucker-led protests in Canada

Canadian police have begun a massive operation to clear the trucker-led protests against Covid health rules clogging the capital for three weeks, with several arrests made and trucks towed away.

World • 18 Feb 22

The trawler sank off Newfoundland (stock image)

Seven dead as Spanish trawler sinks off Canada

At least seven fishermen have died and another 14 are missing after a Spanish trawler sank in rough seas off eastern Canada today, Spanish and Canadian officials said.

World • 15 Feb 22

Police cleared vehicles and protesters from the Ambassador Bridge

Trudeau invokes emergency act to end trucker protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked rarely used emergency powers to bring an end to trucker-led protests against Covid health rules that police fear could turn violent.

Coronavirus • 14 Feb 22

Protesters confront police as they try to clear the Ambassador Bridge

Canada police work to clear protesters from key bridge

Canadian police were working today to clear a key bridge of truckers protesting Covid-19 restrictions, even as authorities in Ottawa braced for renewed demonstrations expected to bring thousands to the federal capital.

World • 12 Feb 22

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lambasted the movement as 'unacceptable'

Trudeau says Canada trucker protests 'unacceptable'

Canadian police have threatened to arrest trucker-led protesters who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade in anger at Covid health rules.

World • 10 Feb 22

Hundreds of trucks and truck drivers attempting to cross Ambassador Bridge from Detroit, Michigan, to Windsor, Ontario, were stuck on the US side after the bridge was closed by Canadian protesters

Canada border crossing blocked by protesting truckers

The busiest land crossing from the United States to Canada remained shut today after Canadian truckers blocked lanes yesterday to protest their government's pandemic control measures.

Coronavirus • 08 Feb 22

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency in the capital, calling the protests an "occupation"

Ottawa Mayor seeks mediator in truckers' protest

Canadian authorities struggled to tackle a truckers' protest against Covid restrictions which has paralysed the national capital for days and threatens to snowball into a full-blown political crisis for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

World • 07 Feb 22

The number of protesters in Ottawa peaked at several thousand last Saturday, according to officials, before dwindling to a few hundred by midweek

Protests in Canada over Covid measures ramp up

An occupation of Canada's capital by truckers opposed to vaccine mandates gained steam as it entered its second week on Saturday.

World • 05 Feb 22

Canadian truckers protest with a convoy of big rigs against vaccine mandates and Covid-19 measures in Ottowa

Weekend-long Canada anti-vax protest riles Ottawa

A "Freedom Convoy" of trucks joined by thousands of demonstrators brought Ottawa to a virtual standstill for a second day yesterday to protest Canada's vaccine mandates, as other sympathetic truckers blocked a border highway into the United States.

World • 31 Jan 22

The truckers were joined by thousands of other protesters in Ottawa

Hundreds of truckers pour into Ottawa in protest

Hundreds of truckers drove their giant rigs into the Canadian capital Ottawa today as part of a self-titled 'Freedom Convoy' to protest vaccine mandates required to cross the US border.

World • 29 Jan 22

Authorities believe the four people were being smuggled across the border

Baby among four found dead near US-Canada border

Canadian authorities found the bodies of four people including a baby who apparently froze to death in a blizzard a few metres from the US border along a route used by migrants, officials have said.

World • 21 Jan 22

People hold signs with images of the victims of the downed Ukraine plane, in a march last year in Toronto, Ontario

Compensation for families over jet downed by Iran

A Canadian court has awarded more than C$100 million in compensation to the families of six people who died after a Ukrainian passenger jet was shot down over Tehran

World • 04 Jan 22

BNP Paribas has been struggling to keep up with larger rivals in the US retail banking market

BNP Paribas to sell Bank of the West to Canada's BMO

BNP Paribas, France's biggest bank by market capitalisation, said it had agreed to sell its US unit Bank of the West to Canada's BMO Financial Group for around $16.3 billion.

Business • 20 Dec 21

Uber has had its sights set on the burgeoning cannabis market for some time now

Uber enters cannabis market with orders in Canada

Uber Technologies said it will allow users in Ontario in Canada, to place orders for cannabis on its Uber Eats app, marking the lift-hailing giant's foray into the booming business.

Business • 22 Nov 21

A view of flooding in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford, British Columbia

Military joins rescue efforts in flood-hit Canada

Canada's military has joined rescue efforts for flood devastated communities in British Columbia province, with thousands of people moved from their homes and a number of motorists missing after powerful mudslides.

World • 18 Nov 21

The extreme weather comes after British Columbia suffered record-high temperatures over the summer that killed more than 500 people, as well as wildfires that destroyed a town

Deadly mudslides cut off Vancouver from rest of Canada

At least one person has died in torrential rains that trapped motorists in mudslides, forced thousands to evacuate their homes and cut off Vancouver from the rest of Canada.

World • 17 Nov 21

A man cycles along a sea wall past a barge that came loose from its moorings in Vancouver

At least one dead in Canada mudslides - police

At least one person has died in torrential rains that forced thousands in western Canada to evacuate their homes and trapped motorists in mudslides, according to federal police.

World • 16 Nov 21

More than 1,200 unmarked graves wrere found at three sites where indigenous children were forced to attend school

Pope to visit Canada after indigenous school scandal

Pope Francis will visit Canada as the Catholic Church seeks to rebuild bridges with the indigenous community following a horrifying scandal of abuse at church-run residential schools, the Vatican said.

World • 27 Oct 21