Canada

Alberta announces $100 gift card as incentive to get fully vaccinated as cases surge

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney, two months after declaring victory over COVID-19, is now offering $100 to Albertans who aren't fully vaccinated to curb nation-leading cases of the illness that have a...

Sep 3, 2021

Canada could see above 15K daily COVID-19 cases next month, Tam says

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says there is an urgent need for more people between 18 and 39 to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to reduce the impact of the Delta variant. "This is a cr...

Sep 3, 2021

Fortin's lawyers fight bid to toss his lawsuit over removal from vaccine post

OTTAWA - Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin's lawyers are fighting a federal attempt to quash their client's lawsuit over his removal as head of Canada's vaccine distribution campaign. In a newly filed Federal Cou...

Sep 3, 2021

Progress on Wet'suwet'en rights and title slower than parties would have liked

SMITHERS, B.C. - British Columbia's minister of Indigenous relations and reconciliation says the progress on a memorandum of understanding signed last year marking the start of a new relationship betw...

Sep 3, 2021

Territory's first since June: Nunavut reports case of COVID-19 in Rankin Inlet

IQALUIT - Nunavut is reporting one new case of COVID-19, the territory's first since June. The case is in Rankin Inlet, a community of about 3,000 people in Nunavut's central region. Acting chief publ...

Sep 3, 2021

Black Montreal man victim of wrongful arrest wasn't racially profiled: report

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge's report into the wrongful arrest of a Black man earlier this year concludes he was not the victim of racial profiling and that prosecutors and police officers acted reasonab...

Sep 3, 2021

Manitoba honours day for truth and reconciliation; schools and some services closed

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says it will recognize a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a day of observance to encourage reflection and meaningful discussions about the impacts of res...

Sep 3, 2021

Amber Alert: Quebec police continue search for missing father, three-year-old boy

MONTREAL - Provincial police are continuing a ground search today on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River northeast of Quebec City after issuing an Amber Alert for a missing boy on Tuesday. The p...

Sep 3, 2021

Quebec coroner to probe death of Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata

MONTREAL - Quebec's public security minister says a coroner will investigate after Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata died following a bout last weekend in Montreal. Genevive Guilbault offered her...

Sep 3, 2021

O'Toole, Singh target Trudeau over pandemic election call

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is finding himself under fire this morning from his political opponents over the timing of an election call during the fourth wave of COVID-19. Trudeau triggered...

Sep 3, 2021