Canada

'No crying': Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic

EDMONTON - The Venezuelan woman who believes she was used as part of Jason Kenney's argument not to lockdown restaurants in the province remembers her encounter with the premier as less dramatic than ...

Nov 26, 2020

Boy dead, officer hurt in Kawartha Lakes, Ont.; police watchdog investigating

A one-year-old boy was fatally shot and his father and a provincial police officer injured Thursday following an alleged abduction in central Ontario, the province's police watchdog says. The Special ...

Nov 26, 2020

AOC Among Us: progressive firebrand to join NDP leader for online gaming sesh Friday

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The leader of the New Democrats has thrown down the gauntlet to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Canada-U. S. relations may never be the same. Jagmeet Singh challenged the firebr...

Nov 26, 2020

Alberta's chief medical health officer publicly criticizes staffer who leaked info

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health, dealing with rocketing COVID-19 case numbers, is criticizing a member of her inner circle for leaking confidential information to the media. Dr. D...

Nov 26, 2020

Public health officers walk fine line between public and politicians, scholars say

EDMONTON - There's a fine line between a public health officer's duty to the people they serve and their duty to the elected officials who appoint them, scholars say. But they add governments should b...

Nov 26, 2020

New Brunswick to require all visitors to self-isolate, reports 12 new COVID-19 cases

FREDERICTON - The Atlantic bubble that was pierced Monday when Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador left is now in tatters with New Brunswick's announcement that it is pulling out. Start...

Nov 26, 2020

Macklem tells MPs that bond-buying program about lowering rates, not financing feds

OTTAWA - Canada's top central banker gave a detailed defence of the Bank of Canada's buying spree of government debt, saying it is aimed at lowering borrowing costs across the country. The Bank of Can...

Nov 26, 2020

Mountie with airport knowledge says he warned against arresting Meng on plane

VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer who oversaw a small team based at Vancouver's airport says he dismissed a suggestion the night before Meng Wanzhou's flight landed to arrest the Huawei executive by boardin...

Nov 26, 2020

Federal Court says class action on COVID-19 airfare refunds a matter for other courts

OTTAWA - The Federal Court has punted consideration of airfare refunds, which customers say they are owed following hundreds of thousands of cancelled flights, to provincial courts. Justice Michael Ma...

Nov 26, 2020

Patients, not doctors, should initiate conversations on assisted dying: Qualtrough

OTTAWA - Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough says she's open to amending a bill on assisted dying to prevent health practitioners from discussing medical assistance in dying with a patient ...

Nov 26, 2020