Category Archives: Canada

Chinese-Canadians voice worries about racism, job losses one year in to pandemic
VANCOUVER - COVID-19 has taken a toll on many Canadians, but for Chinese-Canadians the impacts have been magnified by racism aimed at individuals and businesses, community leaders say. Amy Go, the pre...
Feb 08, 2021

Health agency has no Moderna doses scheduled this week, with future amounts uncertain
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says Ottawa plans to distribute more than 70,000 Pfizer-BiotNTech vaccine doses this week ahead of a major ramp-up, but no Moderna doses are on the schedule...
Feb 08, 2021

Politics, meet PlayStation: how 2020 ushered in the era of campaign videogaming
WASHINGTON - Call it the age of PlayStation politics. Where Bill Clinton went on MTV and Barack Obama seized on social media, modern-day Democrats see online video gaming as the next high-tech frontie...
Feb 08, 2021

Mandatory hotel quarantines could harm lower-income Canadians: Lawyer
OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is questioning Ottawa's move to require hotel quarantines for international travellers, saying it may harm lower-income Canadians and infringe on citi...
Feb 08, 2021

Two bodies found after children reported missing in western Quebec house fire
GATINEAU, Que. - Two bodies have been found after a fire tore through a home in western Quebec on Saturday night. Two children had been reported missing in the blaze, but a local police spokesman said...
Feb 07, 2021

Quebec passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as Ontario reports case of Brazil variant
Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a variant first ide...
Feb 07, 2021

MPs demand relocation of 2022 Olympics due to China's abuse of Uighurs
More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a "genocidal campaign" by its government against Uighurs and other Musli...
Feb 07, 2021

Federal funding to help former GGs set up charitable foundations is discretionary
OTTAWA - The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created by governors general once they leave office. But Prime Minister Justin Trudea...
Feb 07, 2021

Grief persists for spouses of first responders, soldiers killed in line of duty
OTTAWA - Angela Gevaudan recalls the first year after her RCMP-officer husband was killed on duty as a whirlwind of responsibility and emotion that offered her little time to process her grief and los...
Feb 07, 2021

'Jarring experience' in B.C. psych wards because of 'uniquely problematic' law
VANCOUVER - A peer-support worker who helps youth with mental health challenges says being involuntarily detained in a psychiatric facility half a dozen times has given him insight into the lack of le...
Feb 07, 2021