Canada

Canada expecting to receive 3.3M vaccine doses this week

OTTAWA - Canada is scheduled to receive a flood of new COVID-19 vaccine doses this week, with around 3.3 million shots due for delivery from different pharmaceutical companies over the coming days. Th...

Mar 29, 2021

Apology in the works for descendants of Canada's only all-Black battalion: minister

HALIFAX - Canada's defence minister has paid tribute Sunday to Canada's only all-Black unit to serve during the First World War.Harjit Sajjan has told a virtual event that the 600 members of the No. 2...

Mar 28, 2021

Tories demand Trudeau testify on WE deal after Liberals reject hearing from PM staff

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to answer questions before a parliamentary committee on Monday about the Liberal government's now-dead deal with WE Char...

Mar 28, 2021

Toronto mayor urging those aged 70 and older to get vaccinated, many spots unfilled

Toronto's mayor is urging anyone 70 years or older to get vaccinated. John Tory says three new COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics will open Monday, but there are still many appointments unfilled. He sa...

Mar 28, 2021

The latest news on COVID 19 developments in Canada for March 28, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ten more people in Ontario have died with COVID-19 as the province reports 2,448 new cases of the disease. Health Min...

Mar 28, 2021

'It's silly:' Director of Bigfoot movie thanks Alberta energy centre for controversy

EDMONTON - The director of a children's movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government's energy centre for starting a "ludicrous" fight over the film. Ben Stassen laughed several times as h...

Mar 28, 2021

Path out of pandemic isn't straightforward, but hope lies ahead: experts

TORONTO - There is a light at the end of the tunnel, COVID-19 experts say, even if it's hard to see it while more contagious virus variants plunge parts of Canada into the third wave of the pandemic. ...

Mar 28, 2021

The need for speed: How Canada approved five vaccines for COVID-19 in under a year

OTTAWA - In the last four years, Health Canada has approved more than 1,500 new or updated pharmaceuticals. Ten of them are vaccines. Five of those are for COVID-19. Dr. Supriya Sharma, the chief medi...

Mar 28, 2021

Establishing motive central focus in fatal library attack in North Vancouver: police

VANCOUVER - Police are working to determine the motive of a series of stabbings that left a woman dead and six others injured inside and around a public library in North Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. ...

Mar 28, 2021

B.C. mining laws raise questions as province looks to implement UN declaration

VANCOUVER - The relationships between Indigenous nations and British Columbia's mining sector are set to change as the province works to match its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Right...

Mar 28, 2021