Canada

Ottawa approves Air Canada's $190-million Transat purchase

Canada's travel landscape is about to change after the federal government approved Air Canada's $190-million purchase of Transat A.T., after COVID-19 diminished the deal's value. Transport Minister Om...

Feb 11, 2021

Canadian blueberries pose no peril to American producers, U.S. trade commission says

WASHINGTON - The panel that evaluates international trade disputes in the United States has squashed a complaint about Canadian blueberries. The U.S. International Trade Commission says recent spikes ...

Feb 11, 2021

Man, dog, killed in chain-reaction crash as semi stops on highway east of Vancouver

HOPE, B.C. - Police say a crash that killed one person and injured dozens more east of Vancouver on Wednesday began with a report of a semi-truck stopped in the S-curves on a mountainous highway in "t...

Feb 11, 2021

Ottawa to define "prior consent" through dialogue with First Nations: Lametti

OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says Ottawa can build a shared understanding of free, prior and informed consent with Indigenous Peoples into a new law to implement the United Nations Declarat...

Feb 11, 2021

Deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Canada set to more than quadruple next week

OTTAWA - A month-long slowdown in Canada's COVID-19 vaccine deliveries should end next week, with the single biggest shipment of vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech to date.Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the mi...

Feb 11, 2021

Canadian Press NewsAlert: B.C. sets record for most over overdose deaths in a year

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's chief coroner says the province recorded the most deaths ever in a single year due to an unnatural cause, with 1,716 lives lost to illicit drug overdoses in 2020. Lisa L...

Feb 11, 2021

Feds roll out promised funding for LGBTQ groups to 76 organizations

OTTAWA - Seventy-six LGBTQ projects in Canada have received $15 million in federal money.The money follows up on a promise in the 2019 federal budget to set up a fund to encourage and support the deve...

Feb 11, 2021

Montreal mayor, police chief announce new anti-gun squad, following rise in violence

Montreal's mayor and its police chief are announcing a new team of investigators who will target weapon traffickers, following a rise in gun-related crime across parts of the city. The new police unit...

Feb 11, 2021

O'Toole pushes U.S. envoy to Canada to preserve Line 5, Keystone XL pipelines

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole urged the acting American ambassador to Canada to tell Washington to preserve the Line 5 pipeline to the United States. O'Toole told Katherine Brucker that he...

Feb 11, 2021

Uncertainty surrounds election delay in Newfoundland and Labrador

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is entering uncharted legal territory as the province's chief electoral officer has called for Saturday's provincial election to be delayed in 18 ridings b...

Feb 11, 2021