Canada

Closed six weeks: Yellowknife schools to reopen Monday as COVID-19 cases decline

YELLOWKNIFE - Schools in Yellowknife and surrounding areas are to reopen Monday after a six-week closure during a widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in the Northwest Territories. Cases have declined in t...

Oct 20, 2021

Health-care workers demand Trudeau fast track paid sick-leave policy

OTTAWA - A coalition of front-line health-care workers has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fast-track proposed legislative amendments to grant paid sick leave to federally regulated workers. Tr...

Oct 20, 2021

More needed to prevent deaths from climate-change driven heat waves, fires: report

OTTAWA - A new report examining the health impacts of climate change says more Canadians than ever are facing serious health risks from heat waves and wildfires, prompting warnings from doctors that w...

Oct 20, 2021

Trudeau urged to make decriminalization of illicit drugs a priority

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being urged to decriminalize the possession and use of illicit drugs as a way to combat the opioid crisis that has resulted in thousands of deaths in Canada. ...

Oct 20, 2021

Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cries as he presents COVID-19 modelling

REGINA - Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cried Wednesday during a teleconference on COVID-19 modelling in the province. Dr. Saqib Shahab said it's upsetting to see what is happening in Sas...

Oct 20, 2021

Annual inflation rate hits 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says

OTTAWA - The cost to put food on the table and gasoline in the car pushed up the cost of living in September, lifting the annual pace of price increases to a near two-decade high with no clear end in ...

Oct 20, 2021

Land acknowledgment by Habs may be a mistake: Quebec Indigenous affairs minister

MONTREAL - Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenire says a Montreal Canadiens' land acknowledgment that refers to unceded territory of the Mohawk Nation may be a mistake. The statement, which ...

Oct 20, 2021

Indigenous advocates question who PM is consulting with on First Nations kids ruling

OTTAWA - Some Indigenous advocates and leaders say they don't know who Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is talking about when he says Ottawa is doing consultations over a ruling that affirms the need to ...

Oct 20, 2021

Truth and reconciliation centre says it's still waiting on residential school records

WINNIPEG - The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it is still waiting for records from the federal government related to residential schools, despite a comment from Prime Minister Justi...

Oct 20, 2021

Microplastics making their way up to belugas in Arctic through prey, says new study

VANCOUVER - Hundreds of thousands of tiny bits of plastic waste have been found in the stomachs of belugas, proving that the pollution is making its way even to the most remote Arctic waters, a new st...

Oct 20, 2021