Canada

Provinces push forward on vaccination amid lingering questions after Fortin departure

Canadian provinces continued to take steps towards hitting their vaccination targets today even as questions linger after the departure of the senior military officer in charge of the national immuniz...

May 16, 2021

Feds face growing calls for answers after general overseeing vaccine effort sidelined

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is facing growing calls for answers on why the military general who was overseeing Canada's COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been sidelined, as well as who wil...

May 16, 2021

People with disabilities even more alone during pandemic: cerebral palsy spokeswoman

YELLOWKNIFE - Riley Oldford is usually out playing sledge hockey or hanging out with friends, but since the start of the pandemic he's mostly been at home. The 16-year-old, who has cerebral palsy and ...

May 16, 2021

Western MP pitches Conservative carbon price with a 24-pack of Pilsner

OTTAWA - Ron Liepert says these days, the phone calls and emails from people wanting to talk about his party's climate plan have slowed. One month ago, the Conservative MP for Calgary Signal Hill was ...

May 16, 2021

Where the streets have explorers' names, some Halifax residents call for change

HALIFAX - When builders created Halifax's distinctive Hydrostone neighbourhood more than a century ago, they chose to honour celebrated explorers. There are streets named after William Grant Stairs, C...

May 16, 2021

Tree poaching from public forests increasing in B.C. as lumber hits record prices

VICTORIA - Big trees, small trees, dead trees, softwoods and hardwoods have all become valuable targets of tree poachers in British Columbia as timber prices hit record levels. Forestry experts and of...

May 16, 2021

Quebec premier argues province has power to amend constitution in letter to Trudeau

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promoting his proposed reform to the province's language law, which includes a potential change to the C...

May 15, 2021

'It was a going concern': Remaining bar and hotel in Alberta coal ghost town for sale

WAYNE, Alta. - Built during the First World War, it survived the Great Depression, the Second World War and the closure of coal mines in the 1950s. Now the historic Last Chance Saloon in the ghost tow...

May 15, 2021

Real or hoax? Quebec scholars probe mystery letter allegedly from Titanic passenger

MONTREAL - Researchers from Universit du Qubec Rimouski are trying to solve the mystery about whether a letter in a bottle washed up in New Brunswick in 2017 is from a young victim of the Titanic. The...

May 15, 2021

Canadians divided on sending Team Canada athletes to the Tokyo Olympic Games: poll

OTTAWA - A new poll by Leger and the Association of Canadian Studies suggests the country is divided over plans to send athletes from Canada to the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo as Japan grapples wi...

May 15, 2021