Canada

'Sicker and younger': Toronto ICU copes with pressure during third wave of pandemic

TORONTO - Intensive care nurse Jane Abas is assessing her patient, checking her medication and monitoring her heart rate. The 68-year-old woman tested positive for a COVID-19 variant shortly after arr...

Apr 15, 2021

Residential school building at Lower Post, B.C., to be demolished, replaced

VICTORIA - A former residential school building in the remote British Columbia community of Lower Post will be demolished and replaced after decades of lobbying efforts by local Indigenous leaders. Th...

Apr 15, 2021

WestJet CEO Ed Sims finds Air Canada aid package 'bittersweet' as talks drag on

OTTAWA - WestJet CEO Ed Sims says the federal government's aid package for Air Canada could be "problematic" unless his company gets equitable treatment, as talks over pandemic relief continue between...

Apr 15, 2021

Quebec impresario Gilbert Rozon faces civil suit over alleged sexual assault

MONTREAL - Quebec entertainment mogul Gilbert Rozon is facing a $1.6-million civil lawsuit over an alleged sexual assault dating back to 1994. The suit was filed by actress Patricia Tulasne, who is se...

Apr 15, 2021

Faster vaccines alone could not have stopped third wave: deputy public health officer

A top federal public health official says a faster vaccine ramp-up alone would likely not have thwarted the third wave of COVID-19 in many parts of the country. Deputy chief public health officer Dr. ...

Apr 15, 2021

'Wrong signal:' Federal ministers protest Saskatchewan's electric vehicle tax

Two federal ministers are protesting Saskatchewan's plan to bring in a tax on electric vehicles. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and Transport Minister Omar Alghabra have outlined their concer...

Apr 15, 2021

Pablo Rodriguez asks for investigation into leaked photo of Liberal MP William Amos

OTTAWA - The government House Leader is asking the Speaker of the House of Commons to investigate the leak of a photo of a Liberal MP caught naked on camera during a virtual sitting of Parliament. Pab...

Apr 15, 2021

Father of fallen Canadian soldier of two minds on Biden's pullout from Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - The outspoken father of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in 2006 says he's conflicted about the decision to pull U.S. troops out of the war-weary country. Jim Davis, of Bridgewate...

Apr 15, 2021

Charities hope Liberals' budget lends helping hand as sector eyes long recovery

OTTAWA - Canada's charities are hoping the Liberals extend them a helping hand in net week's budget as the sector faces the possibility of a prolonged road to recovery, even after the economy reopens....

Apr 15, 2021

Pact allowing Canada to return refugees to United States is constitutional: court

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has found that a pact between Ottawa and Washington to turn back asylum-seekers entering Canada from the United States does not violate the Charter of Rights and F...

Apr 15, 2021