Canada

New Brunswick First Nations filing lawsuit to seek Aboriginal title

FREDERICTON - Six First Nations in New Brunswick announced today they will be filing a lawsuit seeking title to their traditional lands in New Brunswick, which include much of the western half of the ...

Oct 05, 2020

Five-year-old Canadian orphan in Syrian camp set free, will come to Canada

OTTAWA - A five-year-old Canadian girl stuck inside Syria after her family was killed in an airstrike is being allowed to leave the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne s...

Oct 05, 2020

U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery

STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...

Oct 05, 2020

New pandemic aid and health-care workers at risk: In The News for Oct. 5

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 5. What we are watching in Canada ... The...

Oct 05, 2020

14 days of solitude: The lonely success of the 'Atlantic bubble'

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Laurie Leek has spent four of the past eight weeks alone in her home in St. John's. She was alone for her birthday. She was alone in the weeks immediately following her mother...

Oct 05, 2020

New institute to shine spotlight on Canada's little known history of slavery

MONTREAL - Charmaine Nelson wagers that if you asked people in cities across Canada what they know about the history of slavery in this country, most would be surprised to hear that the practice even ...

Oct 05, 2020

Teachers learn that online classes for foreign students come with geopolitical snags

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John's, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn'...

Oct 05, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 4

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2020: There are 166,160 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 78,459 confirmed (including 5,878 deaths, 65,304 re...

Oct 04, 2020

Tam urges Thanksgiving caution amid recent rise in cases of COVID-19

Plan ahead to make sure this year's Thanksgiving holiday is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's top public health officer urged on Sunday as case counts continued to soar in several parts...

Oct 04, 2020

Quebec coroner's office to launch public inquest into Joyce Echaquan's death

MONTREAL - A public inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman who filmed herself being insulted by Quebec hospital staff hours before she died will be launched as soon as possible, the province's ...

Oct 04, 2020