Canada

Wildfires take over from industry as major source of cancer-causing air toxins: study

Wildfires have taken over from industry as a major source of a group of cancer-causing chemical toxins in the air, Environment Canada says. The first national assessment of polycyclic aromatic compoun...

Dec 14, 2020

The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for Monday, Dec. 14

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):1 p.m.Quebec has administered the province's first COVID-19 vaccine to a resident of a long-term care home in Quebec City.Premier...

Dec 14, 2020

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Ontario administers first COVID-19 vaccine in Toronto

TORONTO - Ontario has administered the provinces' first COVID-19 vaccination to a health-care worker from a Toronto nursing home.Anita Quidangen, a personal support worker at the Rekai Centre, receive...

Dec 14, 2020

Canada boosts foreign aid by $485 million with new funds to global COVID-19 effort

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign aid budget is swelling noticeably today with International Development Minister Karina Gould's announcement of $485 million in new funding towards the global effort to provid...

Dec 14, 2020

A look at what provinces and territories have said about COVID-19 vaccine plans

The largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history was set to begin Monday in Ontario and Quebec after the country received its first COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend.The Canadian mili...

Dec 14, 2020

Quebec to begin inoculating against COVID-19 as first vaccines arrive

MONTREAL - Quebec's first COVID-19 vaccinations will be administered Monday afternoon in Montreal, a public health official said, as health-care workers prepared for what is being called the "historic...

Dec 14, 2020

Canada a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement: UN refugee agency

OTTAWA - The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative. With nearly 168 countries implementing border and tra...

Dec 14, 2020

Series of gaps allowed massive Desjardins data breach, privacy watchdog says

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog says a series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins - the largest in the Canadian financial services sector.In ...

Dec 14, 2020

Psychiatrist to be cross-examined by defence at Toronto's van attack trial

TORONTO - The prosecution's final witness in Toronto's van attack trial will be cross-examined by the defence today.Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Scott Woodside says Alek Minassian knew his actions were m...

Dec 14, 2020

From 'Snowmageddon' to pandemic, Newfoundland and Labrador confronted hunger in 2020

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Skipping meals is dangerous for a diabetic, but Janine Ryan finds she sometimes has no choice if she wants her kids to have enough to eat. Ryan is a welder, but she lost her job whe...

Dec 14, 2020