Canada

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):11 a.m.Quebec is reporting 1,869 new cases of COVID-19 and 51 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, including 18 withi...

Jan 11, 2021

Feds change sick-leave benefit, applicants required to say if they travelled

OTTAWA - Anyone applying for three federal benefits will now need to say whether they are in quarantine because they travelled outside the country. The Canada Revenue Agency announced the new requirem...

Jan 11, 2021

CRTC to launch hearing on CBC's application to renew broadcasting licences

OTTAWA - Canada's telecommunications regulator will launch a multi-day review today of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s broadcasting licences. The CRTC says electronic hearings will begin at 10 a.m. ...

Jan 11, 2021

Manslaughter trial begins for Ontario trucker charged in death of Edmonton woman

EDMONTON - A jury trial is to begin today for an Ontario truck driver charged in the death of a woman at an Edmonton motel a decade ago. Bradley David Barton, who is 52, is charged with manslaughter. ...

Jan 11, 2021

Federal government weighs listing Proud Boys as terror group

OTTAWA - Authorities are collecting information about the right-wing Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said Sunday as it faced calls to ban t...

Jan 10, 2021

Canada joins allies in condemning latest Hong Kong arrests by China

OTTAWA - Canada's foreign affairs minister is joining counterparts from the U.S., Britain and Australia in condemning last week's mass arrest of politicians and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. F...

Jan 10, 2021

Forced to travel during pandemic, Nunavut women want birthing services at home

IQALUIT, Nunavut - In October, Collette Nilaulak gave birth, alone, to her third child in a hospital room about 1,200 kilometres from her home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Pandemic restrictions meant one...

Jan 10, 2021

Canada's mission in Iraq at a crossroads as ISIL declines, new threats emerge

OTTAWA - More than six years after Canada first deployed troops to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel remain in the reg...

Jan 10, 2021

Sister in B.C. waits for little brother's ashes that seem to be lost in transit

VANCOUVER - Courtney Baker doesn't know what she's going to do with the urn she's picked out for her little brother's ashes. They were supposed to arrive by express post from Edmonton to Vancouver mor...

Jan 10, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine arrives in remote First Nations across Canada

First Nations across Canada have begun to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines as provincial immunization programs get underway and Indigenous leaders encourage people to roll up their sleeves. Six of 1...

Jan 10, 2021