Canada

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Wednesday, May 5, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 283,833 new vaccinations administered for a total of 14,568,...

May 05, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, May 5, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. There are 1,257,328 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 1,257,328 confirmed cases (81,671 active...

May 05, 2021

Kenney under fire during Commons emergency debate on Alberta's COVID-19 crisis

OTTAWA - Alberta's legislature may have been silenced but its partisan warfare relocated Wednesday to the House of Commons as MPs held an emergency debate on the province's soaring number of COVID-19 ...

May 05, 2021

Northwest Territories to offer vaccines to 12- to 17 year-olds in Yellowknife

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories says it will offer vaccinations against COVID-19 to young people between 12 and 17 starting Thursday. The territory, which has only been using the Moderna vacci...

May 05, 2021

Cougar believed to be responsible for B.C. attack killed: conservation service

AGASSIZ, B.C. - The British Columbia Conservation Officer Service says it believes it has killed the cougar responsible for an attack on Tuesday that left a woman in hospital with serious injuries. Th...

May 05, 2021

MPs vote against Tories' call to fire Trudeau's chief of staff over Vance complaint

OTTAWA - Opposition parties rejected a call from Conservatives for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fire his chief of staff over the handling of a complaint against Canada's former top soldier. The To...

May 05, 2021

B.C. gives $2M to Japanese Canadian seniors as step toward righting internment wrongs

VICTORIA - British Columbia is offering tangible recognition of the historical wrongs caused by the province when it helped to intern thousands of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The p...

May 05, 2021

'Like a flash fire:' Rabbit owners warned about outbreak of deadly disease in Alberta

CALGARY - Janice Romick could see it coming. The rabbit breeder for 40 years in Cold Lake, Alta., says she saw the writing on the wall before a deadly rabbit virus appeared last month in the southern ...

May 05, 2021

Regis Labeaume, longtime Quebec City mayor, won't seek re-election in November

Quebec City's longtime mayor says he's quitting politics and won't seek re-election in November. Regis Labeaume made the announcement today at a news conference in the provincial capital. Labeaume, 65...

May 05, 2021

Ticketing of Black man for jaywalking was racial discrimination: human rights board

HALIFAX - A human rights board of inquiry has found that a Black man was discriminated against by Halifax police when he was ticketed for jaywalking. Board chairman Benjamin Perryman released a decisi...

May 05, 2021