Canada

General overseeing Canada's vaccination campaign urges military, society to be better

OTTAWA - During her first public appearance since taking over management of Canada's COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Brig.-Gen. Krista Brodie urged the military - and all Canadians - to strive to do be...

May 20, 2021

Lone Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq opts not to seek reelection

OTTAWA - Nunavut's sole MP says she will not seek re-election when Canadians next go to the polls. In a social media post Thursday, New Democrat Mumilaaq Qaqqaq says that after weeks of reflection and...

May 20, 2021

No independent oversight of federal obligation to routinely publish info: officials

OTTAWA - Senior officials acknowledged today there is no independent oversight of the requirement that federal departments proactively publish government records. Justin Trudeau promised in the 2015 e...

May 20, 2021

Canadians urged to prepare as top meteorologist predicts active hurricane season

HALIFAX - The Canadian Hurricane Centre is predicting another active hurricane season this year, citing the persistence of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures. Meteorologist Bob Robichaud also conf...

May 20, 2021

Montreal-area mayor calls on municipal leaders to condemn recent antisemitic acts

MONTREAL - The mayor of a Montreal suburb is calling for other municipal leaders to denounce antisemitism after several recent anti-Jewish incidents in the region. Mitchell Brownstein, mayor of Cte-Sa...

May 20, 2021

Impatience, lack of clarity as clock ticks on AstraZeneca expiry date

TORONTO - Impatience and a lack of clarity persisted Thursday over the fate of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire in the coming weeks. Several provinces have stopped gi...

May 20, 2021

Nova Scotia mass shooter obsessed by spectre of pandemic disaster, violence

HALIFAX - The spectre of pandemic-fuelled social chaos and widespread looting appeared to haunt the Nova Scotia mass shooter a month before he carried out his killing rampage of April 18-19, 2020. Twe...

May 20, 2021

Too early to set a date on loosening travel restrictions: Canada's transport minister

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says he cannot yet commit to a date - or COVID-19 vaccination rate benchmarks - for when so-called vaccine passports will allow Canada to ease travel restrict...

May 20, 2021

Statistics Canada reminds people to fill out 2021 census, may follow up in person

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is reminding people to fill out this year's census to avoid getting a visit at their door during the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency says later this month, census enumerators ...

May 20, 2021

'Crisis delayed': experts say drop in N.S. suicides in 2020 doesn't tell full story

HALIFAX - The number of suicides recorded in Nova Scotia in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic was the lowest since 2014. According to new government data, 120 people in Nova Scotia killed themselves i...

May 20, 2021