Canada

Quebec is relaxing COVID-19 restrictions, but dance floors remain empty

MONTREAL - For Montreal DJ Marc-Andr Patry, there's no point performing if people can't dance. "I wouldn't go to the museum for an exhibition and look at a piece of art on the wall if it was 80 per ce...

Oct 22, 2021

Hand-washing, no yelling 'trick-or-treat': Quebec offers up pandemic Halloween rules

MONTREAL - Quebec kids are being asked not to yell 'trick-or-treat' as they go door-to-door for candy and to keep a bottle of hand sanitizer handy this Halloween. The province's Health Department toda...

Oct 22, 2021

People with allergic reaction to COVID-19 vaccine can still get second dose: NACI

OTTAWA - Canada's vaccine advisory committee says it's possible to safely give a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to people who experienced severe allergic reactions to their first shot. The Nation...

Oct 22, 2021

Green Party to drop legal action against Annamie Paul as discussions drag on

OTTAWA - Green Party executives are planning to drop a legal challenge against their leader that brought tensions between senior officials and Annamie Paul to a boil last summer. Two senior party memb...

Oct 22, 2021

Human rights adjudicator can't decide workplace discrimination complaint: top court

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a labour arbitrator - not a human rights adjudicator - should weigh a complaint from a unionized Manitoba health-care aide who alleged discrimination by her e...

Oct 22, 2021

Line 5 dispute 'directly and significantly' impacting Canada-U.S. relations: Enbridge

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Enbridge Inc. are asking a judge in Michigan to consider the bilateral implications of the state's bid to shut down the Line 5 cross-border pipeline. Newly filed court documen...

Oct 22, 2021

Reshaping COVID benefits, Rogers rumble and film set tragedy: In The News for Oct. 22

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 22 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Oct 22, 2021

Library and Archives Canada service cuts hindering research, historians complain

OTTAWA - Researchers say recent service cuts at Canada's national archives are making their work - already hampered by COVID-19 - even more challenging. In a letter to Library and Archives Canada, the...

Oct 22, 2021

Canadian Blood Services eyes removing sexual orientation-based donation restrictions

If Jason Goncalves has to answer detailed questions about his sex life in order to donate blood plasma, he'll grit his teeth and do it. Never mind that heterosexual men don't face the same inquiries, ...

Oct 22, 2021

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake 'repulsed' by politicization of Habs' land acknowledgment

MONTREAL - The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is blasting the Quebec government for questioning a land acknowledgment by the Montreal Canadiens that refers to the unceded territory of the Mohawk Nation. ...

Oct 21, 2021