Canada

Canada's vaccine donations to COVAX to come only from its COVAX supply: Gould

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould confirms none of the 13 million doses Canada is currently promising to donate to COVAX will come from supplies procured directly from vaccine m...

Jun 14, 2021

Health officer says risk to others low: Two cases of COVID-19 at Iqaluit school

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says two COVID-19 cases at Iqaluit's middle school came from household transmission and the risk to other students is low. With an outbreak ong...

Jun 14, 2021

Conservative MP Tim Uppal sorry for role in 'divisiveness' of Harper-era policies

OTTAWA - A former Conservative cabinet minister is apologizing for not pushing against his party's culturally divisive polices of the Stephen Harper era, including an effort to ban face coverings duri...

Jun 14, 2021

Liberal cabinet ministers criticize senior military officers who golfed with Vance

OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers are expressing their dismay after senior military officers recently joined former defence chief Jonathan Vance for a game of golf in Ottawa. Deputy Prime Minister Ch...

Jun 14, 2021

Liberals move to cut debate, force vote on bill to implement 2021 budget

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals say they want to force an end to debate in the House of Commons on their budget bill and bring it to a vote. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government will m...

Jun 14, 2021

Your Ward News antisemitic and misogynist hatemongers lose conviction appeal

TORONTO - An editor and publisher have lost their appeal of a conviction for promoting hatred against women and Jews. A judge today refused to quash the convictions against editor James Sears and publ...

Jun 14, 2021

Indigenous people can now reclaim traditional names on their passports and other ID

OTTAWA - The federal government is announcing that Indigenous people can now apply to reclaim their traditional names on passports and other government identification. The announcement comes in respon...

Jun 14, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on June 14, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday June 14, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 383,285 new vaccinations administered for a total of 29,008,156...

Jun 14, 2021

Canada's PM Trudeau in Brussels for NATO meeting, then Canada-EU summit

BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Brussels today for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and then a Canada-EU summit. Trudeau will begin his day by meeting the president o...

Jun 14, 2021

Canada to receive 9.5M vaccine doses this week thanks to influx of Moderna shots

OTTAWA - Canada is poised to receive around 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week thanks to a massive infusion of shots from Moderna. The federal government says the Massachusetts-based pharmac...

Jun 14, 2021