Canada

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Thursday, May 6, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 6, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 350,701 new vaccinations administered for a total of 14,918,7...

May 6, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Thursday, May 6, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 6, 2021. There are 1,265,320 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,265,320 confirmed cases (81,325 active,...

May 6, 2021

Canada will not participate in Durban IV conference amid anti-Semitism concerns

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says the federal government will not be taking part in 20th-anniversary events for an international conference where Israel was singled out for condemnation. In...

May 6, 2021

PM's chief of staff offers to testify on Vance sexual misconduct allegations

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff has offered to testify at a House of Commons committee studying allegations of sexual misconduct against Canada's former top military commander....

May 6, 2021

Canada must sanction Vladimir Putin's oligarchs: Alexei Navalny's chief of staff

OTTAWA - The chief of staff to Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned critic of the Russian president, is calling on Ottawa to impose new sanctions on those who he described as "Vladimir Putin's oligarchs." L...

May 6, 2021

No tickets, charges issued in Quebec for travellers violating hotel quarantine order

MONTREAL - Quebec's public prosecutions bureau says it hasn't issued tickets or filed criminal charges for violations of the national health order requiring travellers arriving in Canada to quarantine...

May 6, 2021

Alberta eases security payment burden for oilsands companies

EDMONTON - Alberta is changing how it calculates the payments oilsands mines make to ensure there's enough money to clean up the mess they leave behind. The province says the decision is in reaction t...

May 6, 2021

Coroner role after strep-throat death of Indigenous child before Ontario's top court

TORONTO - The failure of a coroner to fully investigate the death of a four-year-old Indigenous boy was part of a systemic dereliction of duty that ought to face legal scrutiny, Ontario's top court he...

May 6, 2021

NACI chair says advice not meant to give AstraZeneca recipients vaccine remorse

OTTAWA - The chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who already got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should not feel they made a bad choice. Dr. Caroline Quach and the othe...

May 6, 2021

Federal government under fire for stopping short of U.S. commitment on vaccine waiver

WASHINGTON - Ottawa has yet to follow the United States on easing patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines - and critics and allies alike are noticing. The One Campaign, a progressive anti-poverty gro...

May 6, 2021