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Irish naval authorities bringing debris ashore from the Air India Boeing 747 in Cork in 1985

Man acquitted in Air India bombing killed in Canada

An acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was shot dead yesterday in an apparent targeted shooting in westernmost Canada.

World • 15 Jul 22

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the annual rate to rise to 7.4% in May from 6.8% in April.

Canada inflation rate hits 7.7%, highest in 39 years

Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated to 7.7% in May, the highest since January 1983, on fuel prices, as well as services like hotels and restaurants, Statistics Canada said.

Business • 22 Jun 22

Miniature shampoos and body wash will be removed from the hotels by 2030 (stock pic)

Holiday Inn hotels to axe plastic bathroom miniatures

The owner of Holiday Inn has partnered with Unilever to remove miniature shampoos and body wash from its hotels by 2030 in a bid to eliminate single-use plastics from its venues.

World • 20 Jun 22

A memorial for children who died in residential schools on Parliament Hill in Ottawa
last year

Canadian priest arrested for Indigenous school assaults

Police in Canada have announced the arrest of a Catholic priest for allegedly sexually assaulting an Indigenous student five decades ago, marking the first recent charges in relation to the country's historical residential schools scandal.

World • 17 Jun 22

US First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President, on 8 May, Mother's Day in the US

Wartime visitors stop by Ukraine in show of solidarity

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi have become the latest Western leaders to show their support for Ukraine by visiting the country.

World • 16 Jun 22

A total of 11 people died after the incident in 2018

Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison

A man who drove a rented van into dozens of people on a busy Toronto street in 2018, killing 11, has been sentenced to life in prison.

World • 14 Jun 22

Justin Trudeau said the government was righting a 'wrong from the past'

Canada awards Siksika tribe $1.3bn for taken land

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signed a Can$1.3 billion (€962m) deal - one of the largest of its kind - to settle a Blackfoot tribe's century-old land claim.

World • 03 Jun 22

Clients wait outside Insite, a supervised consumption site in Vancouver where clients inject illicit drugs under the supervision of nurses

Canadian province trials decriminalising hard drugs

Canada has announced the decriminalisation of hard drugs in small quantities in a British Columbia pilot project aiming to tame an opioid crisis that has killed thousands - by treating addictions rather than jailing users for possession.

World • 01 Jun 22

An exemption to the law allowing possession of opioids, cocaine, methamphetamine and other hard drugs will kick in on 31 January, 2023

Canada province trials decriminalising hard drugs

Canada has announced the decriminalisation of hard drugs in a British Columbia pilot project aiming to tame an opioid crisis that has killed thousands – by treating addictions rather than jailing drug users for possession.

World • 31 May 22

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also said gun violence continues to rise in the country

Canada's Prime Minister proposes handgun 'freeze'

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a proposed freeze on handgun ownership in the country that would effectively ban their importation and sale, following recent mass shootings in the United States.

World • 31 May 22

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