Canada

At least two senators left country amid COVID-19 pandemic, six not saying

OTTAWA - Don Plett is facing calls for his resignation as Conservative leader in the Senate after choosing to travel to Mexico over the holidays. But Plett is not the only senator who travelled abroad...

Jan 07, 2021

Manhunt fallout: Premier calls on the RCMP to improve emergency alert protocols

HALIFAX - The premier of Nova Scotia says the RCMP must change how they alert the public to dangerous incidents following the high-profile arrest of a gunman who remained at large for 19 hours. Stephe...

Jan 07, 2021

Health-care professionals ready to help but some say vaccine rollout too slow

VANCOUVER - Marcia Carr returned to nursing during the first wave of the pandemic after four years in retirement and now wants to "hit the ground running" to help vaccinate as many people as possible....

Jan 07, 2021

Timeline: A look at Canada's relationship with Iran, before and after the PS752 crash

OTTAWA - It has been 66 years since Canada and Iran established diplomatic ties. Those had frayed and been mended many times before the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines flight near Tehran kil...

Jan 07, 2021

Canadian snowbirds flock to vaccinate in Florida as rollouts lag north of the border

OTTAWA - Canadian snowbirds in Florida are rushing to get inoculated down south as provincial vaccine rollouts lag north of the border. While many of the roughly one million Canadians who flock to sun...

Jan 07, 2021

Quebec COVID curfew raises concerns over enforcement, profiling, advocates say

MONTREAL - Civil rights advocates say they're concerned Quebec's new provincewide curfew is not justified by science and will be enforced in a way that has a disproportionate impact on racialized peop...

Jan 07, 2021

Ongoing U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports of solar products 'unwarranted,' says Ng

OTTAWA - The federal government is pushing back against ongoing American tariffs on Canadian solar products. In a statement today, International Trade Minister Mary Ng calls the tariffs "unwarranted" ...

Jan 07, 2021

Education said key in overcoming health-care worker opposition to COVID-19 vaccine

TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of thos...

Jan 07, 2021

Canadian Armed Forces lay out COVID-19 vaccination plans for troops

OTTAWA - The Canadian military's surgeon general says the Canadian Armed Forces have received enough doses of the Moderna vaccine to immunize 1,200 members against COVID-19.Maj.-Gen. Marc Bilodeau say...

Jan 07, 2021

Health Canada delays drug-pricing reforms, citing COVID challenges for manufacturers

Health Canada says it's delaying the implementation of long-awaited changes to Canada's drug-pricing regime by another six months. A spokesman for the department says the amendments to patented medici...

Jan 07, 2021