Canada

Ottawa mulls exempting more workers from Canada-U.S. border shutdown: Garneau

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Ottawa is looking at expanding the categories of essential workers allowed to travel across the Canada-U.S. border. He told a parliamentary committe...

Apr 8, 2021

Variants of concern higher than reported, but giving precise data challenging: BCCDC

VANCOUVER - A medical director at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says the number of active COVID-19 cases that are variants of concern is higher than what has been publicly reported i...

Apr 8, 2021

Canada has new ways to pressure Washington over softwood lumber duties: ambassador

VANCOUVER - Canada's ambassador to the United States says Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to negotiate a solution to the long-standing dispute over U.S. duties on softwood...

Apr 8, 2021

Top doctor in N.W.T. says first COVID-19 variant cases identified in territory

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has detected its first COVID-19 variant cases.The territory says two recently announced infections have been identified as the B.1.1.7 variant first identified ...

Apr 8, 2021

Victims of gun violence slam feds over gun-control reform

TORONTO - The federal government's proposed gun-control laws are "toothless and cowardly," victims of gun violence in Ontario said Thursday. The Danforth Families for Safe Communities advocacy group a...

Apr 8, 2021

Advocates demand sweeping changes to military complaints process for sexual violence

OTTAWA - Advocates are calling for fundamental reforms to the process for complaining about sexual violence in Canada's military. Christine Wood, co-chair of the military sexual-trauma survivors group...

Apr 8, 2021

Canadian Museum of History CEO resigns after probe into alleged workplace harassment

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Museum of History has resigned following reported allegations of workplace harassment at the national institution. Museum CEO Mark O'Neill has been on a medical leave...

Apr 8, 2021

Gould says COVAX clearly working, as vaccine-sharing program reaches 100 countries

OTTAWA - The international vaccine-sharing program known as COVAX says it has reached 100 countries with vaccines as of today but many of the world's poorest nations have still not been able to receiv...

Apr 8, 2021

Bloc asks Ottawa to support logging, fledgling biofuels sector

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is calling on the federal government to recharge Quebec's forestry sector with an eye to its energy potential. The Bloc is laying out a slate of prop...

Apr 8, 2021

Montreal police arrest suspect after woman of Asian origin threatened on city's metro

Montreal police say they've arrested a man who allegedly made death threats to a woman of Asian origin on the city's subway system.Police say the victim was in a metro car on March 27 when the suspect...

Apr 8, 2021