Canada

Canada probing whether delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses could help more people

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she has asked the national vaccine advisory panel to investigate if there is merit to delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a bid to get more...

Jan 05, 2021

Info watchdog raps Privy Council Office for terminating access requests from public

OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from the public without good cause. In a series of decisions made public Tue...

Jan 05, 2021

Human rights commission to investigate death of seven-year-old Quebec girl

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement th...

Jan 05, 2021

Trudeau says he too is frustrated by holiday travellers, pace of vaccine rollout

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shares the frustrations of Canadians with those who've chosen to travel abroad over the holiday season. Trudeau says changes are coming to a new federal ...

Jan 05, 2021

Quebec City long-term care employee in his 50s dies from COVID-19

MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec City say a worker at one of the first long-term care homes in the province to receive COVID-19 vaccines has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus...

Jan 05, 2021

Canadian troops test positive for COVID-19 in Latvia, Kuwait

OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says Canadian troops deployed to Latvia have tested positive for COVID-19. The Defence Department isn't saying how many Canadian Armed Forces members have b...

Jan 05, 2021

The latest on COVID-19 developments in Canada on Jan. 5, 2021

OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 11:10 a.m. Quebec is reporting 2,508 new cases of COVID-19 today and 62 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus...

Jan 05, 2021

Georgia voters head to polls to determine balance of power on tense Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Voters in Georgia have shattered turnout records as they decide who will hold the balance of power on Capitol Hill. Nearly 3.1 million people have already cast ballots in today's tw...

Jan 05, 2021

Nunavut NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq returns from leave after 'burnout, depression'

OTTAWA - Nunavut's sole MP says she is back on the job after several months away from work due to what she described as "extreme burnout, depression and anxiety." Mumilaaq Qaqqaq announced in late Oct...

Jan 05, 2021

Nearly half of Canadians visited friends, family over holidays, new poll suggests

OTTAWA - A new survey suggests nearly half of Canadians visited with family or friends over the winter holiday period. The Lger/Association for Canadian Studies poll found 48 per cent of those surveye...

Jan 05, 2021