Canada

Report says mandatory ship speeds required to protect right whales in Cabot Strait

OTTAWA - Voluntary speed restrictions in place for vessels passing through the Cabot Strait don't go far enough to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, according to a newly released report....

Feb 22, 2021

Critics ask why no details on government plan for parks management

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will "optimize" the province's parks by getting other people to run them. It's been almost a year since the plan was revealed in ...

Feb 22, 2021

Canada to receive record 640K vaccine doses this week with Pfizer, Moderna deliveries

OTTAWA - Canada is poised to receive a record number of COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to scheduled deliveries from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, as the country looks to speed up its vaccinati...

Feb 22, 2021

Mars rover landing a moment of joy for Canadian-born NASA systems engineer

MONTREAL - Farah Alibay describes the moments between the time the Perseverance rover entered Mars' atmosphere on Thursday and when it landed on the surface of the Red Planet as "the longest seven min...

Feb 21, 2021

Cost of Coast Guard ship nears $1B as questions mount over federal shipbuilding plan

OTTAWA - The federal government has quietly revealed that it plans to pay nearly $1 billion to build a new ocean research vessel for the Canadian Coast Guard whose original cost was supposed to be one...

Feb 21, 2021

COVID-19 activity declining, but variants at 'critical juncture,' Tam says

Canada's chief public health officer says the collective efforts to fight COVID-19 are paying off, even as the country sits at a 'critical juncture' in the fight against fast-spreading variants. Dr. T...

Feb 21, 2021

'Something much bigger:' Calgary pet charity hopes to expand to keep kids with pets

CALGARY - A mother whose family has been struggling financially and emotionally is giving thanks to a pet charity that helped pay for medical treatment for their injured cat during a particularly dark...

Feb 21, 2021

B.C. man wants help, not charges, for woman who took his truck with son inside

QUALICUM BEACH, B.C. - A Vancouver Island man whose truck was stolen while his son was sitting inside says he wants addiction treatment for the woman, not charges. Aaron Johnson and his 11-year-old so...

Feb 21, 2021

Tam urges need to maintain individual COVID-19 precautions as variant cases mount

Public health officials have identified upwards of 700 cases of contagious COVID-19 variants across Canada, the nation's top doctor said Saturday, a finding she said lends new urgency to her calls to ...

Feb 20, 2021

Chinese ambassador denounces pending vote by Canadian MPs on Uighur genocide

OTTAWA - China's envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country's internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in ...

Feb 20, 2021