Law
Major G7 tax agreement only first step toward global deal: Freeland
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday an agreement made by Group of Seven (G7) countries on taxing multinational companies and setting a global minimum...
Nursing homes with repeated violations continue to break law, despite Ontario’s promise to crack down
Ontario long-term care homes continue to break the law without facing serious penalties, with egregious consequences for seniors in the province. “We need...
Wealthy KPMG clients continued to dodge taxes for years after CRA detected offshore ‘sham’
After amassing a fortune selling scrap metal in South Africa, Peter Cooper immigrated to Canada in the mid-1990s with his sons Marshall and...
Instructions for outfitting an RCMP car were left on federal website after Nova Scotia attacks in 2020
More than a year after a gunman’s lookalike RCMP car helped him move through Nova Scotia undetected and kill 22 people, federal officials...
Partially paralyzed Indigenous man left in wheelchair he can’t operate outside Toronto ER files complaint
It felt like –7 C outside when Charles Hussin found himself kicked out of a downtown Toronto hospital’s emergency department in January and...
Doug Ford’s PCs enter final year before election in the lead, but vulnerable
With exactly one year to go before the 2022 Ontario provincial election, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives still have the upper hand in...
Ex-judge releasing review of military justice system rocked by sexual misconduct crisis
In normal times, a review of the military justice system would be an obscure exercise, something of interest only to a select constituency....
Canada’s cattle sector on guard as beef-labelling talk returns in the U.S.
In the annals of North American trade disputes, the fight over mandatory country-of-origin labelling on beef and pork probably deserves its own chapter. When...
Federal COVID Alert app caught 400 cases of COVID-19 in April
The federal government’s COVID Alert app sent out 35,000 exposure notifications last month that resulted in the identification of at least 400 COVID-19 cases,...
TikTok debuts new voice — after Canadian actor sues over the old one
Users of the social media app TikTok noticed a new female voice narrating their videos on Monday, about three weeks after a Canadian actor...
Black market in Google reviews means you can’t believe everything you read
When Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire and owner of the English Premier League’s Chelsea Football Club, appeared to have posted a Google review...
U.S. law allowing cruise ships to skip B.C. ports would set risky precedent: harbour authority
When the U.S. House of Representatives swiftly passed legislation amending a historical law that some say could have severe consequences for British Columbia’s...
Why these parents, teachers want COVID-19 vaccines to be mandatory for school staff
This story is part of a CBC News series examining the stresses the pandemic has placed on educators and the school system. For the series, CBC News sent...
Quebec’s proposed changes to Constitution seem small, but they could prompt historic makeover
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that Quebec could rewrite a section of Canada’s Constitution — no permission needed from the provinces...
With Bill 101 reforms, François Legault risks upending Quebec’s hard-won linguistic peace
The Charter of the French Language, better known as Bill 101, had a difficult birth. Its childhood and adolescence were equally tumultuous, and...
Deadly shooting at Vancouver airport linked to gangs, police say
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday at Vancouver International Airport in what police believe was a gang-related killing. The shooting, which occurred mid-afternoon outside...
