Canada

Up to 10 per cent of Quebec health-care workers have experienced long COVID: study

MONTREAL - A study by Quebec's public health institute has found that between six and 10 per cent of the province's health-care workers have experienced long COVID. The study, whose preliminary result...

Sep 21, 2023

Ontario women accused of fraud after Inuit status with Nunavut groups questioned

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP have charged three women after receiving a complaint that they used Inuit status to defraud two organizations. RCMP say that between October 2016 and September 2022, th...

Sep 21, 2023

Ibrahim Ali trial: Sex assault expert compares dead girl's injuries to childbirth

VANCOUVER - A sexual assault expert testifying at the trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl in a B.C. park says she suffered injuries more consistent with childbirth that would have mad...

Sep 21, 2023

Japan, Canada pledge more co-operation on battery supply chains, AI technology

OTTAWA - A new battery supply-chain agreement between Ottawa and Tokyo comes as Canada wants to expand its position in the battery industry and Japan seeks to secure access to lucrative American EV su...

Sep 21, 2023

Most of Canada's dangerous offenders housed in medium- and minimum-security prisons

OTTAWA - Federal statistics show most of the 700 offenders deemed most dangerous in Canada are housed in medium- and minimum-security prisons. The data were tabled in Parliament in response to a writt...

Sep 21, 2023

B.C. court cites Korean filial tradition in payout to parents over son's death

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has awarded more than $327,000 to the parents of a teenager killed in 2019 for the "likely hypothetical future" care their son would have provided un...

Sep 21, 2023

Timeline of events surrounding killing of B.C. temple leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in Parliament Monday that there is "credible" intelligence linking agents of the Indian government to the shooting death of a Sikh temple leader in Surrey, B.C....

Sep 21, 2023

Young Ukrainian hockey players await Quebec government OK to attend English school

MONTREAL - A half-dozen boys from Ukraine who played this year in Quebec City's famed peewee hockey tournament have been sidelined since returning to the province to attend high school. The youngsters...

Sep 21, 2023

Michael Kovrig urges unity against hostage diplomacy, as Canada helps craft rules

OTTAWA - A Canadian man who was held in China for nearly three years is calling on governments around the world to co-ordinate sanctions and travel bans on states that arrest foreigners for political ...

Sep 21, 2023

Quebec health-care establishments argue against allowing COVID-19 class action

MONTREAL - A lawyer for Quebec's regional health authorities says a proposed class-action lawsuit on behalf of residents of long-term care homes that had COVID-19 outbreaks should not go forward. Jona...

Sep 21, 2023