Canada

Meng's defence team to argue for admission of evidence to bolster its case

VANCOUVER - The chief financial officer of telecom giant Huawei is set to return to the British Columbia Supreme Court today for arguments over the admission of evidence in her extradition case. Meng ...

Mar 01, 2021

Feds hoping for AstraZeneca shots this week as Pfizer-BioNTech prepare next delivery

OTTAWA - The federal government hopes to start receiving doses of AstraZeneca's recently approved COVID-19 vaccine this week as the flood of shots that flowed into Canada from Pfizer-BioNTech and Mode...

Mar 01, 2021

'More pain:' Some Broncos families angry over request in court to delay lawsuit

A battle between lawsuits related to the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is to be heard in a Regina courtroom this week. Eleven lawsuits were filed after the crash on April 6, 2018. Sixteen people died and...

Mar 01, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 28, 2021. There are 866,503 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 866,503 confirmed cases (30,731 active, 813,...

Feb 28, 2021

From lockdowns to spring break, provinces split on next steps in COVID-19 fight

Canada's pandemic hotspots are taking diverging approaches to handling the COVID-19 crisis, as Ontario prepares to trigger new lockdown measures in two public health units and Quebec enters a week of ...

Feb 28, 2021

Vaccine tourism is both unethical and bad for business, experts say

Executives who engage in so-called "vaccine tourism" show both an ethical disregard for those less fortunate and a surprising lack of business acumen, experts argue. Their comments came after the head...

Feb 28, 2021

Inuit midwives say they left after experiencing years of mistreatment

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Cas Augaarjuk Connelly and Rachel Qiliqti Kaludjak never wanted to stop working at a Nunavut birthing centre, but they say years of mistreatment, racism and a lack of support from t...

Feb 28, 2021

On East Coast, exhausted COVID-19 'long haulers' hope specialized clinics will emerge

HALIFAX - On evenings when Sean Hoskin collapses into bed, heart pounding and mind foggy from his yearlong battle with COVID-19, he wonders when a clinic to treat his symptoms might emerge in Atlantic...

Feb 28, 2021

Pornhub policies reveal legal gaps and lack of enforcement around exploitive videos

OTTAWA - Serena Fleites was in seventh grade when a sexually explicit video of her was uploaded to Pornhub. The fallout from that fateful post - made without her knowledge after a boyfriend demanded s...

Feb 28, 2021

Gummed-up bills in House of Commons: harbinger of a federal election?

OTTAWA - All federal party leaders maintain they don't want an election in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic but the Conservatives appear to be pursuing a strategy that could give the Liberals justif...

Feb 28, 2021