Canada

Questions remain about the future of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot in Canada

Questions remained Wednesday about the future of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Canada as Manitoba limited use of the shot and Ontario said it was deciding how it would use an incoming shipment res...

May 12, 2021

Final court dates set in Meng Wanzhou's case as her lawyers ask to bring new evidence

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Huawei's chief financial officer say they will apply to introduce new evidence in her extradition case next month. A B.C. Supreme Court judge set June 29 and 30 for a hearing o...

May 12, 2021

Crown seeks life sentence for youth in terrorism case

OTTAWA - The Crown is seeking a life sentence for a teenager who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges including possession of explosive material and counselling someone to detonate a bomb. The ...

May 12, 2021

Nunavut working to get Pfizer vaccine for territory's teens

Nunavut's chief public health officer says the government is working to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for teens, but he says there is no timeline on when doses might arrive. Dr. Michael Pat...

May 12, 2021

Military reports minimal progress in drive to add more women to the ranks

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is reporting minimal progress at the midway point of its 10-year drive to increase the number of women in uniform. In 2016, then-defence chief general Jonathan Vance...

May 12, 2021

'It is a gold mine:' Builders warned of rising lumber thefts across Canada

The skyrocketing cost of lumber is fuelling a trend that has authorities across the country warning builders to keep their guard up. Canadian authorities have been warning this year about the rise in ...

May 12, 2021

Commercial, private or military jet? Garneau quarantine travel raises rule questions

OTTAWA - Plans for Canada's foreign affairs minister to take his second international trip in less than a month have raised questions around what's allowed for those in quarantine and a discrepancy be...

May 12, 2021

U.K. eyeing fall for start of detailed trade deal talks with Canada, minister says

OTTAWA - Britain's trade minister says his country expects to kick-start talks on a free-trade pact with Canada in the fall and suggests it might differ in scope from what is now in place. Ranil Jayaw...

May 12, 2021

France's Supreme Court to rule on Hassan Diab extradition next week: lawyer

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Hassan Diab says the Canadian government should not be part of any further wrongful extradition of the Ottawa sociology professor regardless of the outcome of a looming French Su...

May 12, 2021

Business leaders in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin urge court to keep Line 5 operating

WASHINGTON - Business leaders in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin have joined forces with their Canadian counterparts in the legal fight over the Line 5 pipeline. The U.S. and Canadian chambers of commerc...

May 12, 2021