Canada

Calgary hospital restricts visitors, postpones surgeries as COVID-19 infections grow

CALGARY - A Calgary hospital is postponing surgeries and restricting visitors as a COVID-19 outbreak grows. Alberta Health Services says 26 patients and 27 workers at the Foothills Medical Centr...

Sep 28, 2020

CPP breaking its rules with third-party donations in U.S: environment group

TORONTO - An environmental group says the Canada Pension Plan is dodging rules that say its money cannot be used for political ends. John Bennett of Friends of the Earth says the national plan owns a ...

Sep 28, 2020

Minimal risk to wild salmon from viruses on farmed B.C. salmon: Fisheries Department

VANCOUVER - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says nine pathogens from farmed salmon in British Columbia's Discovery Islands pose a minimal risk to wild salmon, based on its scientific assessment...

Sep 28, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sept. 28

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 1:58 p.m. EDT on Sept. 28, 2020: There are 154,574 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 72,651 confirmed (including 5,826 deaths, 61,629 ...

Sep 28, 2020

U.S. appeals softwood ruling to WTO appeals body the U.S. has rendered inoperative

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Mary Ng says it is extremely disappointing that the United States has decided to appeal a World Trade Organization ruling against its softwood-lumber duties, part...

Sep 28, 2020

Must-see TV: Trump, Biden to square off in first face-to-face debate of 2020 election

WASHINGTON, Wash. - To borrow a favourite phrase from a certain sitting U.S. president, Tuesday's debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden promises to be something the likes of which no one's ever se...

Sep 28, 2020

Opposition leaders in the House and DND shopping: In The News for Sept. 28

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 Sept. 28. What we are watching in Canada ... O...

Sep 28, 2020

COVID-19 cases surge in Ontario, Quebec warns of alarming situation in some cities

Canada's most populous province is reporting a surge in new cases of COVID-19 today, nearly half of them in Toronto. Ontario reported 700 new cases of the novel coronavirus - 344 in Toronto,...

Sep 28, 2020

Plumbers found human flesh in the accused's pipes, Ontario murder trial hears

OSHAWA, Ont. - The double-murder trial of an Oshawa, Ont., man is hearing gruesome details of what the prosecution alleges were the accused's attempt to get rid of the body of one of the tee...

Sep 28, 2020

Trudeau urges largest countries in the world to support UN biodiversity plan

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on countries with the largest land mass to do more to protect the biodiversity of their land and water. Trudeau made that call today at a special sess...

Sep 28, 2020