Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes rarely-used emergency ordinance in a bid to quell anti-vaccine trucker protests that have brought the capital city Ottawa to a grinding halt.

Canadian police clear protesters and vehicles that had blocked the Ambassador Bridge, but the key border crossing with the US remained shut.

Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who are protesting against the government's COVID-19 measures for two weeks.

Canada and Britain announce a political boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, following similar decisions by the United States and Australia over alleged human rights violations in China.

The Canadian government has appealed a federal court decision upholding a ruling that would require that it pay billions of dollars to indigenous children and their caregivers harmed by a discriminatory welfare system, saying it would instead seek to negotiate a deal.

Trudeau has come under fire for taking a vacation on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honor the victims and survivors of indigenous residential schools.

A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal compensation ruling that ordered Ottawa to pay $40,000 to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system.