Canada

Seven residents at Montreal care home get COVID-19 after receiving first vaccine dose

MONTREAL - Seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre who received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have contracted COVID-19. Management at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre informed...

Jan 13, 2021

Vaccine panel says Canada can delay second dose of COVID-19 vaccine if shortage

OTTAWA - Canada's national panel of vaccine experts says the second COVID-19 vaccine dose can be delayed briefly in a bid to get more people a first dose faster. The National Advisory Committee on Imm...

Jan 13, 2021

Impeachment, again: Congress mobilizes to brand Trump with a second scarlet letter

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A historic second day of reckoning looms for Donald Trump. Democrats in the House of Representatives, along with a number of Republicans, are poised to impeach the U.S. president fo...

Jan 13, 2021

Ontario's stay-at-home order and Canadians' mental health: In The News for Jan. 13

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 13 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jan 13, 2021

Review finds successes, failures in Liberals' feminist aid approach in Afghanistan

OTTAWA - An internal review of the nearly $1 billion in foreign aid that Canada quietly spent in Afghanistan after the Canadian military pulled out has found some successes but also many failures - es...

Jan 13, 2021

Final arguments over criminal responsibility scheduled in high school stabbing case

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Final arguments are scheduled to begin today over the criminal responsibility of a man who fatally stabbed a student and wounded another at a high school in Abbotsford, B.C. Ga...

Jan 13, 2021

Doctors, nurses call on B.C. to test surgical, emergency patients for COVID-19

VANCOUVER - Testing patients for COVID-19 before their scheduled surgery and transfer to wards from emergency departments could reduce hospital outbreaks in British Columbia as cases rise, the results...

Jan 13, 2021

Feds' challenge of ruling on First Nations children 'a slap in the face': AFN

OTTAWA - The federal government's appeal of a ruling that expanded First Nations children's rights to public services is "a slap in the face," says the Assembly of First Nations. The November ruling b...

Jan 13, 2021

Dogs bring owners joy and a reason to be out at night during Quebec's curfew

MONTREAL - When the Quebec government announced it was imposing an 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to limit the spread of COVID-19, Ita Skoblinski posted a tongue-in-cheek message to her local community Faceb...

Jan 13, 2021

Allan Legere, dubbed the 'Monster of the Miramichi', set for parole hearing today

The Parole Board of Canada is expected to consider the supervised release of serial killer Allan Legere during a hearing today. Residents of the Miramichi area and local politicians have already writt...

Jan 13, 2021