Canada

Advocates aim to shape 'Vancouver model' for drug decriminalization

VANCOUVER - City councillors in Vancouver voted unanimously this week to ask the federal government to decriminalize small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use, a decision advocates hope will bla...

Nov 27, 2020

Top officials weighed Canadian warship's passage through sensitive strait near China

OTTAWA - Newly released documents have shed light on the secret government talks and debate that took place ahead of a Canadian warship's passage through a sensitive waterway near China last year. Tho...

Nov 27, 2020

Black Friday shopping in a pandemic: COVID-19 closes some stores, sales move online

Black Friday, the one-day shopping bonanza known for its big bargains and large crowds, has arrived. While rising COVID-19 cases and weeks of staggered deals have muted the usual fanfare of the shoppi...

Nov 27, 2020

Tory MP Duncan pushes Health Minister to finally end the gay blood ban

OTTAWA - Eric Duncan, the first openly gay Conservative MP, laced into the federal health minister Thursday over the Liberals failure to end a ban on gay men donating blood. In a heated and emotional ...

Nov 26, 2020

'No crying': Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic

EDMONTON - The Venezuelan woman who believes she was used as part of Jason Kenney's argument not to lockdown restaurants in the province remembers her encounter with the premier as less dramatic than ...

Nov 26, 2020

Boy dead, officer hurt in Kawartha Lakes, Ont.; police watchdog investigating

A one-year-old boy was fatally shot and his father and a provincial police officer injured Thursday following an alleged abduction in central Ontario, the province's police watchdog says. The Special ...

Nov 26, 2020

AOC Among Us: progressive firebrand to join NDP leader for online gaming sesh Friday

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The leader of the New Democrats has thrown down the gauntlet to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Canada-U. S. relations may never be the same. Jagmeet Singh challenged the firebr...

Nov 26, 2020

Alberta's chief medical health officer publicly criticizes staffer who leaked info

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health, dealing with rocketing COVID-19 case numbers, is criticizing a member of her inner circle for leaking confidential information to the media. Dr. D...

Nov 26, 2020

Public health officers walk fine line between public and politicians, scholars say

EDMONTON - There's a fine line between a public health officer's duty to the people they serve and their duty to the elected officials who appoint them, scholars say. But they add governments should b...

Nov 26, 2020

New Brunswick to require all visitors to self-isolate, reports 12 new COVID-19 cases

FREDERICTON - The Atlantic bubble that was pierced Monday when Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador left is now in tatters with New Brunswick's announcement that it is pulling out. Start...

Nov 26, 2020