Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nothing is off the table when it comes to the next phase of Canada's response to the spread of COVID-19. Trudeau told CTV's Question Period this morning tha...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   11:30 a.m. Nova Scotia has confirmed its first three presumptive cases of COVID-19. Public health officials say th...

HALIFAX - For a Halifax father and daughter dedicated to taking on global infectious diseases, the novel coronavirus has led to their latest, exhausting push to create tests a...

ASBESTOS, Que. - Retired miner Mario Leblanc stares at a giant map of his town from 1960 that hangs on the wall of the Asbestos, Que., historical society and laments how much his commun...

OTTAWA - Gen. Jonathan Vance says he still has a lot of work to do. It's been nearly five years since former prime minister Stephen Harper first appointed Vance as chief of the defence staff, making h...

VANCOUVER - Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia are being urged to create coaching codes of conduct after verbal abuse complaints were made against a rowing coach at the University of Vict...

Quebec Premier Francois Legault called on the province's seniors and those who may be inclined to visit them to stay home until further notice on Saturday in a bid to stop the growing spread of C...

OTTAWA - Many of the hundreds of people descending on Canada's first dedicated COVID-19 assessment centre went home without being tested on Saturday as they fell short of the criteria r...

OTTAWA - These days, no roads lead to Rome for David Beasley. The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program made that clear on a trip to Ottawa this week, where he was trying to rais...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is closing America's borders to foreign nationals who recently spent time in Europe, a dramatic step that illustrates both the severity of the global outbreak of COVID-1...