Canada

Ottawa to allow return of Canadian who spent years in Syrian prison camps: Justice

OTTAWA - The lawyer for a Canadian woman who spent two years in Syrian prison camps says he's trying to help get her home from Iraq after Ottawa agreed to give her an emergency travel document. Lawyer...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada could authorize vaccine for kids 5-11 in "one to two weeks"

Health Canada says a decision on whether to authorize a COVID-19 vaccine for children will come "in the next one to two weeks," leaving open the possibility that some kids could be at least partially ...

Nov 12, 2021

N.S. court rules law allowing 'dry celling' of prisoners discriminates against women

TRURO, N.S. - A portion of a federal law that kept a New Brunswick woman in a form of solitary confinement for 16 days on suspicion she had concealed drugs inside her vagina has been ruled unconstitut...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada, U.S. say end fossil fuel subsides as COP26 draft called 'weasel words'

OTTAWA - Canada's environment minister says he thinks fossil fuel subsidies should be eliminated as United Nations negotiators wrestle over a final text in the closing hours of the Glasgow climate tal...

Nov 12, 2021

Supreme Court of Canada affirms 'starting-point' approach to criminal sentencing

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says it is appropriate for appeal courts to set starting-point benchmarks for sentencing offenders in criminal cases. The high court ruling came today in the cases...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada's new foreign affairs minister meets in D.C. with U.S. counterpart Blinken

WASHINGTON - Mlanie Joly is meeting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in her first stateside visit as Canada's new foreign affairs minister. The meeting comes one week before Prime Minister Justi...

Nov 12, 2021

Canada withdrawing non-essential staff from Haitian embassy amid security concerns

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says it is temporarily withdrawing non-essential staff from the Canadian embassy in Haiti. The move comes in response to a spike in gang-related violence in Haiti and a ...

Nov 12, 2021

'I put life on hold:' Woman who had delayed surgery in Alberta says she's worse off

EDMONTON - A woman whose surgery in Alberta for cancer in her face was delayed because hospitals were overburdened with COVID-19 says the consequences for her have been drastic. Sharon Durham of Wynya...

Nov 12, 2021

Nova Scotia pays for COVID-19 vaccines for mink, B.C. says no before closing industry

Nova Scotia will help pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for mink, but the British Columbia government says more research is needed to determine if immunization is an option for thousands of animals that will...

Nov 12, 2021

Toronto police say woman severely hurt in 2018 van attack has died of her injuries

TORONTO - Police say a woman who was severely hurt in the 2018 Toronto van attack has died of her injuries in hospital. Toronto police say in a release that Amaresh Tessamariam, who was 65, died on Oc...

Nov 11, 2021