Canada

Trudeau Liberals ask public for advice on updating Access to Information law

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are asking the public for views on reforming the key federal transparency law, which the government acknowledges is sorely outdated. The government says the ideas for imp...

Apr 01, 2021

Canada-U.S. dispute emerges over right whale killed by entanglement with fishing gear

HALIFAX - Canadian officials are challenging a draft report from their American colleagues that alleges fishing gear from Canada is to blame for the entanglement of a North Atlantic right whale found ...

Apr 01, 2021

Canada's next federal election leaders' debates includes APTN as broadcast partner

OTTAWA - The commission overseeing leaders' debates during federal elections says Indigenous media outlet APTN will be one of the broadcast partners producing the next event. The Leaders' Debates Comm...

Apr 01, 2021

Staff shortage amid B.C.'s deadliest COVID-19 care home outbreak: report

VANCOUVER - An inspection of a long-term care home that was the site of British Columbia's deadliest COVID-19 outbreak found staffing levels were low and cleaning was inadequate as the virus spread th...

Apr 01, 2021

AstraZeneca vaccine doses ready for use as Canada approves U.S. manufacturing sites

OTTAWA - More than 1.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are on their way to provinces now that Health Canada has authorized the U.S. sites where they were made. It remains to be seen ho...

Apr 01, 2021

Supreme Court to look at requirements for pursuing public interest cases

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will help decide the question of whether a judge should hear a matter of public interest even if there are no individual plaintiffs. The top court's decision to he...

Apr 01, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Thursday, April 1

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11:10 a.m. Nova Scotia is reporting three new cases of COVID-19. Two of the cases are in the Halifax area, with one related to t...

Apr 01, 2021

Ontario to announce 28-day provincewide 'shutdown' today: source

TORONTO - The Canadian Press has learned that Ontario is expected to announce a 28-day provincewide "shutdown" today to stop the spread of COVID-19 as an alarming spike in cases threatens the critical...

Apr 01, 2021

What we know about J&J's single-dose vaccine, set to arrive at the end of April

Canada will soon add another COVID-19 vaccine to its supply, with procurement minister Anita Anand announcing this week that initial shipments of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose jab are to arrive ...

Apr 01, 2021

Canada on track to pick new fighter jet next year despite COVID-19

OTTAWA - Canada's top military procurement official says he is optimistic the federal government will finally end its decade-long search for a new fighter jet for the Royal Canadian Air Force next yea...

Apr 01, 2021