Canada

Nunavut judges disagree on how to sentence offenders during pandemic

IQALUIT - Three Nunavut judges, including the territory's chief justice, are at odds over whether harsher prison conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic should be considered in sentencing. One of t...

Dec 02, 2020

Days after economic update, Liberals introduce bill for new COVID-19 spending

OTTAWA - The Liberals have officially started the clock toward a key vote that will determine the fate of billions of dollars in new pandemic-related aid - and the minority government. The federal gov...

Dec 02, 2020

Health Canada to make decision on Pfizer vaccine approval soon, feds say

Canada is drawing closer to making a decision on a leading COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Wednesday as the federal government continued to face pressure to deliver on dos...

Dec 02, 2020

Bullet holes from 2014 attack on Parliament Hill to be left untouched in renovations

OTTAWA - The civil servant leading the most extensive renovations on Centre Block in more than a century says the repairs will not erase the scars from the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill.That includes...

Dec 02, 2020

Vaccine priority list must be refined to match available doses: Tam

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says the priority list of people who will get vaccinated first against COVID-19 has to be refined because the initial six million doses won't be enough to...

Dec 02, 2020

Human activities, shipping, fishing, polluting, links to killer whale deaths: study

VICTORIA - A long-running study of more than 50 dead killer whales in the Pacific Ocean concludes human activities pose deadly threats to the orcas. Killer whale deaths from Alaska to British Columbia...

Dec 02, 2020

Half of people living in territories assaulted at least once after age 15: survey

EDMONTON - More than half of women and men living in Canada's territories reported being victims of at least one sexual or physical assault after their mid-teens. Statistics Canada says there were few...

Dec 02, 2020

Refugee advocates criticize Canada's decision to resume deportations during COVID-19

MONTREAL - Refugee advocates are criticizing Canada's decision to resume deportations before the country irons out the details of a program to grant permanent residency to asylum-seekers who have been...

Dec 02, 2020

Boil-water advisories at First Nations communities to remain past March 2021: feds

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will not meet a marquee pledge by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lift all boil-water advisories in First Nations communities by March 2021. Indigenous Service...

Dec 02, 2020

Researchers say widespread lake drainage on tundra another sign of climate change

Scientists say a year in which almost 200 tundra lakes drained away could point to what's in store for Canada's North. Between 2017 and 2018, 192 lakes in northwest Alaska lost at least a quarter of t...

Dec 02, 2020