Canada

Group championing O'Toole's strategy for Tories emerges as he faces leadership vote

OTTAWA - A new group championing Erin O'Toole's strategy as being best for the Conservative Party of Canada has cropped up just as the caucus is set to force a vote on his future as leader of the part...

Feb 01, 2022

Bloc Québécois saw biggest drop in fundraising after federal election

OTTAWA - Elections Canada figures show donations dried up for the Bloc Qubcois more than other federal parties after the election in September. While political parties often raise more during election...

Feb 01, 2022

Hit-and-run murder trial: Witness who struck falling police officer breaks down

CALGARY - A driver who accidentally ran over a Calgary police officer who died in a hit and run broke down in tears at a first-degree murder trial today. Sgt. Andrew Harnett died in hospital on Dec. 3...

Feb 01, 2022

Long-term Statistics Canada research shows cities across country losing green space

Joni Mitchell was right - they really are paving paradise and putting up parking lots. Statistics Canada's first survey of urban green space shows that, just as the singer-songwriter warned, cities ac...

Feb 01, 2022

CPNewsAlert: Quebec backtracks on taxing unvaccinated to maintain 'social peace'

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he is abandoning his threat to tax the unvaccinated. Legault told a news conference today he is worried about dividing Quebecers and is backtracking in o...

Feb 01, 2022

Canada offering help as COVAX vaccine alliance pleads for more cash

OTTAWA - Canada is considering sending more money or ancillary vaccine supplies to the COVAX global vaccine sharing alliance after a plea from the organizers that it was running out of cash. COVAX cel...

Feb 01, 2022

Ontario will stick to reopening plan despite warning from science panel, premier says

Ontario and Quebec are each reporting 63 additional deaths linked to COVID-19, one day after the two provinces began relaxing pandemic-related restrictions. In Ontario, a panel of scientists that advi...

Feb 01, 2022

In U.S., Trump and his acolytes paying attention to ongoing protests in Canada

WASHINGTON - Ongoing protests in Canada over COVID-19 restrictions have been garnering attention south of the border. Donald Trump himself shouted out Ottawa's so-called "trucker convoy" during a spee...

Feb 01, 2022

'I'm just exhausted': Inside a Toronto hospital during the Omicron wave of COVID-19

TORONTO - Paula Abramcyzk sighs at the unknown her day will bring. Odds are, in the heart of the Omicron wave, someone will die in the intensive care unit at Humber River Hospital in Toronto. The ICU ...

Feb 01, 2022

Indigenous delegation to meet Pope Francis at Vatican set for March

An Indigenous delegation is to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in early spring to discuss reconciliation and healing after a visit was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint stateme...

Feb 01, 2022