Canada

Montreal protesters urge government to allow dance floors to reopen

MONTREAL - A crowd of Montrealers held a large dance party on Mount Royal today to urge the Quebec government to reverse its ban on dancing in bars and clubs. A DJ blasted music over a loudspeaker as ...

Oct 23, 2021

Minister says pandemic help, including military support, approved for Saskatchewan

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the federal government has approved a request for pandemic aid in Saskatchewan, including military support. Blair issued a series of tweets saying the g...

Oct 23, 2021

A profile of Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Heather Stefanson

WINNIPEG - Heather Stefanson's bid to lead the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives and take the premier's chair follows a lifetime in and around politics that started as a young girl. She is the establ...

Oct 23, 2021

A profile of Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Shelly Glover

WINNIPEG - Shelly Glover thought she had left politics behind when she walked away from Parliament Hill in 2015. Six years later, she is vying for the leadership of Manitoba's governing Progressive Co...

Oct 23, 2021

O'Toole's Tories outliers in Canadian politics for keeping vaccination status secret

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives' refusal to disclose how many of their elected members are fully vaccinated makes them something of an outlier in the Canadian political sphere. Most federal and pro...

Oct 23, 2021

Canadian ski resorts face labour shortage, government slow to issue working visas

VANCOUVER - Canadian ski resorts that rely heavily on international workers are steadying themselves for a labour shortage this winter as the visa approval process by the federal government slows. Wit...

Oct 23, 2021

Safe houses for Afghans who helped Canadian military and NGOs will be 'scaled back'

OTTAWA - Some Kabul safe houses, where hundreds of Afghans who helped the Canadian military and non-governmental organizations are waiting to flee to Canada, are set to be closed in two weeks because ...

Oct 22, 2021

Sen. Forest-Niesing hospitalized despite being fully vaccinated against COVID-19

OTTAWA - Sen. Jose Forest-Niesing is in hospital after contracting COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated. Her office says the 56-year-old Sudbury senator is no longer in intensive care and is hopef...

Oct 22, 2021

Memorial to residential school victims removed from Parliament Hill

OTTAWA - A Parliament Hill memorial for Indigenous children who never returned from residential schools has been dismantled. The memorial - pairs of children's shoes, stuffed toys, messages and other ...

Oct 22, 2021

General appeals judge's ruling on reinstatement to COVID-19 vaccine campaign

OTTAWA - Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is appealing after a Federal Court judge struck down his request for reinstatement as the head of Canada's COVID-19 vaccine distribution campaign. Fortin's legal team fi...

Oct 22, 2021