Canada

Alberta bans indoor social gatherings, expands holiday school break

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province bending precariously under the weight of record COVID-19 cases, imposed new sweeping public health restrictions Tuesday that include a ban on gath...

Nov 24, 2020

No further charges related to investigation in Bountiful, B.C.: special prosecutor

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has declined to approve any further charges against people associated with the community of Bountiful where a fundamentalist Christian sect practise...

Nov 24, 2020

Top public servant says few redactions of cabinet confidences made to WE documents

OTTAWA, Ohio - The top federal public servant says only one per cent of the 5,000-plus pages of documents the government has released on the WE Charity affair were blacked out to protect cabinet confi...

Nov 24, 2020

Families of 737 Max crash victims say plane is still unsafe, demand public inquiry

OTTAWA, Ill. - Families of Canadians killed in the Boeing 737 Max crash say the plane remains unsafe and should stay grounded, despite being cleared for takeoff by regulators in the United States. Pau...

Nov 24, 2020

Foreign minister Champagne, Conservative critic Chong spar on China at committee

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong is urging Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne to adopt a more consistent approach to getting tough with China.The Conservative foreign affairs c...

Nov 24, 2020

Nova Scotia imposes tough restrictions on Halifax after 37 new COVID cases reported

HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada's largest city will be subject to sweeping restrictions that stop just short of a full lockdown for the next two weeks as the province moves to head off a continuing surge in...

Nov 24, 2020

Fall of the wall: Alberta government takes down plant installation early due to bugs

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it decided to take down a living wall in its landmark Federal Building earlier than scheduled because of a bug infestation. The United Conservative governm...

Nov 24, 2020

Quebec government says it will table expanded language law during next session

MONTREAL - Quebec's minister responsible for the French language said he will introduce a bill strengthening the province's language law when the legislature returns from its winter break. Simon Jolin...

Nov 24, 2020

Lack of Canadian vaccine production means others could get inoculations first: PM

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought to reassure Canadians on Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines will start to arrive in the coming months even as he acknowledged that other nations are likely to...

Nov 24, 2020

Meng could have been arrested before going through customs: officer

VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer who assisted in the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport two years ago says the Huawei executive could have been arrested before going through customs. Const...

Nov 24, 2020