Canada

CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report

Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported. Earlier...

Dec 19, 2020

First New Brunswick vaccinations begin at nursing home in Miramichi

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least. Pauli...

Dec 19, 2020

Air search off N.S. coast suspended until Sunday for missing scallop fishermen

HILLSBURN, N.S. - The aerial search for five fishermen who were working on a scallop boat when it sank in the Bay of Fundy has been suspended until Sunday, and the ground search has been called off in...

Dec 19, 2020

Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, t...

Dec 19, 2020

A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world's poor: Gould

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could - wrestling a sizable increase in C...

Dec 19, 2020

Carole James, former B.C. finance minister, says she was driven to give back

VICTORIA - Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last ...

Dec 19, 2020

Meng's lawyers outline new branch of argument in extradition case documents

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou allege the United States' legal case against her violates common international law and the extradition proceedings against her should be stayed. I...

Dec 18, 2020

Rules for fuels: Federal government publishes Clean Fuel Standard regulations

OTTAWA - The federal government has released rules that fuel producers and distributors will have to follow under its climate plan. The Clean Fuel Standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissio...

Dec 18, 2020

Rifle shots fired into home of Nunavut officer while family inside: RCMP

CLYDE RIVER, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say a man is facing several charges after shots were fired into the home of a Mountie. The officer's wife and several children were inside at the time, but no one w...

Dec 18, 2020

Former clerk of the B.C. legislature faces charges of fraud, breach of trust

VICTORIA - The former clerk of the British Columbia legislature has been charged with four counts of breach of trust and two counts of fraud in excess of $5,000. The BC Prosecution Service says in a s...

Dec 18, 2020