Canada

Top doctor warns that severe illness likely to rise, trailing spike in COVID-19 cases

Canada's top physician says she fears the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths may increase in the coming weeks as the second wave continues to drive the national death toll toward 10,000. C...

Oct 24, 2020

Federal representative hopes to ease tensions in Nova Scotia lobster dispute

HALIFAX - The man appointed by Ottawa to mediate the ongoing lobster fishing dispute in southwestern Nova Scotia says his priority will be de-escalating tension in the area. Allister Surette was appoi...

Oct 24, 2020

Nunavut's young people 'should be expecting more' from government services: advocate

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Basic information about young people who have used government services in Nunavut isn't being tracked because of "complacency and a lack of accountability," says the annual report f...

Oct 24, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 1:15 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2020: There are 213,726 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 99,235 confirmed (including 6,132 deaths, 83,819 r...

Oct 24, 2020

Nunavut's young people 'should be expecting more' from government services: advocate

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Basic information about young people who have used government services in Nunavut isn't being tracked because of "complacency and a lack of accountability," says the annual report f...

Oct 24, 2020

B.C. voters head to polling stations in snap election called during pandemic

22Voters in British Columbia cast ballots today in an election campaign that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic.NDP Leader John Horgan called the snap election one year before the fixed voti...

Oct 24, 2020

American voters living in Canada increasingly being counted in presidential race

OTTAWA - Soon Jenny Wiebe will drive from her Fredericton home to the Maine town where she was born, to retrieve the mail-in ballot her parents are holding for her. The 55-year-old dual Canadian-U. S....

Oct 24, 2020

B.C. voters head to polling stations in snap election called during pandemic

Voters in British Columbia cast ballots today in an election campaign that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. NDP Leader John Horgan called the snap election one year before the fixed votin...

Oct 24, 2020

Ottawa appoints N.S. university president to help resolve Indigenous lobster dispute

The federal government has named a Nova Scotia university president to help resolve the Indigenous lobster fishery dispute. The Liberal government says it has appointed Allister Surette as a Fed...

Oct 23, 2020

Saskatchewan election: Leaders criticize track records in final stretch of campaign

Saskatchewan's two main political leaders criticized each other's track records Friday as they urged people to vote in the home stretch of the provincial campaign. Election day in Saskatchewan is on M...

Oct 23, 2020