Canada

CRA estimates 30,000 self-employed people may not have to repay CERB

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says thousands of self-employed workers who received emergency benefits last year won't have to repay any of it, as long as they meet certain conditions.For anyone w...

May 27, 2021

Quebec partially reopens major bridge in Montreal closed last week for safety reasons

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says a major Montreal bridge closed last week for safety reasons will be gradually reopened to traffic starting Friday. The le-aux-Tourtes bridge, one of the main brid...

May 27, 2021

World body says Canadian beef officially poses 'negligible risk' for mad cow disease

WASHINGTON - An international animal-health watchdog has officially declared Canadian beef as posing "negligible risk" for mad cow disease. The designation, which is the most preferred category, was a...

May 27, 2021

NDP team up with Liberals, promising to get its net-zero climate bill into the Senate

OTTAWA - Federal New Democrats are ensuring the survival of a key piece of Liberal legislation aimed at keeping Canada accountable to its target of achieving net-zero carbon-related emissions by mid-c...

May 27, 2021

Echaquan's care at Quebec hospital should have been taken more seriously: head nurse

MONTREAL - The head nurse at a Quebec hospital where Joyce Echaquan died last September told a coroner's inquest today the Indigenous patient's care should have been taken more seriously. Echaquan, a ...

May 27, 2021

White House dismisses report that U.S. wants border with Canada reopened next month

WASHINGTON - The White House says no decision has been made about when or how to reopen the border between Canada and the United States. Press secretary Jen Psaki was asked today about a media report ...

May 27, 2021

Right whale protection: Conservation group calls for mandatory speed limits for ships

HALIFAX - An ocean conservation group trying to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales says it wants mandatory speed limits in the Cabot Strait. Oceana Canada says new satellite data indicates...

May 27, 2021

N.S. Mi'kmaq to start season with scaled-down plans for fishery in St. Marys Bay

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - A Mi'kmaq community is scaling down plans for a lobster harvest in southwestern Nova Scotia next week, after Ottawa threatened to pull traps that aren't licensed by the Fisheries ...

May 27, 2021

Mohawk man files rights complaint against Quebec hospital over alleged mistreatment

KANESATAKE - A Mohawk man and his wife are filing a human rights complaint against a Quebec hospital after the elderly man was allegedly discharged from the facility wearing barely any clothes. Winsto...

May 27, 2021

Military deployed to Manitoba to help province hard hit by COVID-19 infections

Members of the military are being deployed to Manitoba where surging COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed the health-care system while all provinces are being urged to use up doses of the AstraZeneca vacci...

May 27, 2021