TORONTO - The University of Toronto says it's concerned about safety as a pro-Palestine encampment still stands at its downtown campus. A statement from the U of T issued Thursday followed tents, banners and flags being set up on campus as students continue to call on the post-secondary institution to cut ties with Isr...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Students set up pro-Palestinian encampment at UofT The University of Toronto says its concerns about safety at its downtown campus are rising. A statement from the university Thursday came after tent...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg judge is expected to decide today whether the trial of a man accused of killing four women will still be heard by a jury Lawyers for Jeremy Skibicki have asked that his jury trial, which is set to begin Wednesday, be heard by a judge alone. The defence has argued that two years of publicity surro...

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the Surrey Police Union say officers were subjected to harassment and disrespect by members of the Surrey RCMP, only to be left in a "jurisdictional void" when both federal and British Columbia bodies declined to investigate their allegations. The claims that Surrey Police Service off...

VANCOUVER - Canada's first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel will officially be brought into the Pacific fleet today and Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles, is scheduled to take part in its commissioning ceremony. A news release says Anne will be attending the ceremony in her role as commodore-in-chief for the ...

OTTAWA - A federal commission of inquiry into foreign interference is slated to release a report today on alleged meddling in the last two general elections. Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue plans to make a statement to the media following the public release, but will not take questions. The inquiry recently wrapp...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel their right to freedom of speech is in danger. The Leger online survey found 57 per cent of respondents who said free speech in Canada is under threat. Of those, 34 per cent said it was "somewhat" threatened, while 23 per cent said they consider the...

BURNABY, B.C. - A researcher at British Columbia's Simon Fraser University says the brains of older adults feel a sense of reward when listening to music, even if it's a song they don't particularly like. Sarah Faber says her work on how healthy brains respond to music as they age creates a baseline for future research...

VANCOUVER - Retailer London Drugs says it's rebuilding its data infrastructure with the help of leading third-party experts to bring its operations safely back online after a cybersecurity incident that has shut down stores for five days. The store says in a statement that there are billions of lines of data and code ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's highest court says police officers have the right to remain silent during investigations by the province's police watchdog. In a decision Tuesday, the Court of Appeal sided with the Quebec federation of municipal police officers and the Montreal police brotherhood against the provincial government. ...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey was given a pathway to retain the RCMP as its police force, but "made no effort at all" to meet conditions to do so. Trevor Bant told the B.C. Supreme Court that the city's plan to abandon a transition to the Surrey Police Service ...

QUESNEL, B.C. - Councillors in Quesnel, B.C., have voted unanimously to censure their mayor, saying his actions related to a book denying the harms of Canada's residential school system jeopardize the city's relationship with Indigenous communities. Coun. Scott Elliott made the motion, telling council that all the work...

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier François Legault has called on the police to dismantle the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the lower field of McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal. His comments follow calls by McGill earlier this week for police to remove the dozens of tents that have been pitched on t...

VANCOUVER - A pro-Palestinian activist group says its international co-ordinator, who was arrested in a Vancouver hate-crime investigation, was released with an order not to attend any protests for the next five months. The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network says Charlotte Kates was arrested by Vancouver ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Two more women have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted by an on-duty member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who offered them rides home from a night of drinking in downtown St. John's. Their statements of claim filed with the province's Supreme Court name the provincial gover...

OTTAWA - Environmental groups are criticizing the Liberal government's planned amendments to the federal Impact Assessment Act. The groups said in a letter to cabinet ministers today that Ottawa isn't fulfilling its responsibility to protect Canadians from pollution. The government is seeking to limits the scope of the...

OTTAWA - Canada's latest greenhouse-gas emissions report shows the country making progress toward meeting its next target in 2030, but there is still a very long way to go. The 2022 report published today shows that across the board, Canada added 708 million tonnes of greenhouse gases that year. That is 53 million tonn...

OTTAWA - On Friday, Canadians may get long-awaited answers about the integrity of the country's last two elections, which was thrown into question last year as reports of attempted foreign interference came to light. A federal commission of inquiry will release a report on the alleged meddling schemes. The findings fo...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs staff found themselves working over the Easter weekend, trying to explain why one of the department's social media posts didn't actually mention the holiday. Instead, the posts wished people a "happy March holiday season," prompting hundreds of questions online about what exactly con...

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says Canadian interest rates don't have to match U.S. or global rates, but there is a limit to how much they can diverge. Macklem made the comments while testifying before the House of Commons finance committee today. The governor says Canada is nowhere close to the limit when it co...

GATINEAU, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation. He says the new commissioner will ensure government is held to account for agreements, regardless of who is in power in Ottawa. He spoke to delegates today at a le...

TORONTO - Canada's financial intelligence agency says it has levied a $9.2-million penalty against The Toronto-Dominion Bank for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures as the bank also faces compliance investigations in the U.S. The penalty by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analy...

TORONTO - A group of students at the University of Toronto say they have started a protest on campus to call on the university to cut its ties with Israel over the ongoing war in Gaza. The students say in a news release that they breached a newly-installed fence around an area on campus known as King's College Circle ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Israeli academics respond to campus protests One of the demands of pro-Palestinian activists who have set up protest encampments on university campuses in Canada and the United States is a severing o...

MONTREAL - One of the demands of pro-Palestinian activists who have set up protest encampments on university campuses in Canada and the United States is a severing of ties with Israeli universities. Tel Aviv University and other research institutions in Israel are accused of being accomplices in that country's war in G...

The makers of Ozempic say their weight-loss drug Wegovy will be available to patients in Canada starting Monday. Novo Nordisk's weekly injection is approved for weight loss among patients diagnosed with obesity. Wegovy can also be prescribed to patients who are significantly overweight and have at least one related me...

OTTAWA - After a rainy night in Ottawa, the sun broke through Wednesday afternoon ahead of a ceremony to break ground for a national LGBTQ+ monument. That was no coincidence, Albert McLeod told a crowd gathered under a bridge near the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ottawa River, or the Kitchissippi, as it's known to A...

VANCOUVER - London Drugs says its phone lines are working again after being taken offline in response to a cybersecurity incident. A statement from the Richmond, B.C.-based pharmacy and retail chain says Canada Post offices inside London Drugs stores are also up and running again. The company closed all of its stores ...