Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair says his country looks on track to meet NATO’s military spending guideline by 2030.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging defense leaders to “dig deep” and provide more air defense systems for Ukraine, to help the country block increasing barrages of Russian missiles.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada remain without power and officials are trying to assess the scope of devastation from former Hurricane Fiona.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has introduced legislation that would put a national freeze on importing, buying or selling handguns.

The Canadians who have disrupted trade with the U.S. and occupied downtown Ottawa for nearly three weeks have been cheered and funded by American right-wing activists and conservative politicians who also oppose vaccine mandates and the country’s liberal leader.

Canada’s public safety minister says U.S. officials should stay out of the country’s domestic affairs.

Families and advocates for the elderly in Kansas argue that with most nursing home residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, some facilities need to relax visiting rules.

Canada will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on Aug. 9, and those from the rest of the world on Sept. 7.

It's high summer along the border between the United States and Canada and people on both sides are wondering when the two governments will ease border-crossing restrictions imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada’s public safety minister says border restrictions on nonessential travel with the United States will be extended until July 21.

Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of Proud Boys, called the terrorist designation “ridiculous.”"There is no basis for it. All the Canadian Proud Boys have ever done is go to rallies,” Tarrio said in a phone interview. He estimated there are between 1,000 and 1,500 Proud Boys in Canada. Sending money to the organization or buying Proud Boys paraphernalia would also be a crime. On January 6, 2021, the Proud Boys played a pivotal role in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.”The government calls the Proud Boys a neo-fascist organization with semiautonomous chapters located in the United States, Canada, and internationally.

A case being heard in a Toronto court this week could end the use of Roxham Road. These migrants know that a longstanding agreement between the United States and Canada requires those seeking asylum to apply in the first country they arrive in. "The United States remains a country with an extensive system for processing applications that remain subject to administrative and legal checks and balances," Cadieux told The Associated Press. Most of those irregular border crossers entered Canada at Roxham Road. Now the numbers are down, but local taxi drivers still meet the bus each day looking for fares they can take to Roxham Road.