Canada

Long-awaited federal rent subsidy program for businesses hurt by COVID-19 opens today

OTTAWA - Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today for a long-awaited new commercial rent-relief program offered by the federal gover...

Nov 23, 2020

New COVID-19 restrictions coming into effect as case numbers soar across Canada

Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.Surging case counts that re...

Nov 22, 2020

Trudeau joins G20 in promising COVID-19 aid to poor nations, rejecting protectionism

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining fellow leaders at the G20 in a promise to provide more assistance to poor countries battered by COVID-19, including the provision of vaccines for all....

Nov 22, 2020

More provinces sign up for rent benefit as Liberals set up promised housing council

OTTAWA - Seven provinces have signed on to a federal rent assistance program created as part of the national housing strategy, newly released documents show. So far, the Liberals have only announced d...

Nov 22, 2020

Exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying-bill slammed by psychiatrists

OTTAWA - The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illne...

Nov 22, 2020

Angst around French language boils over in Quebec, as politicians warn of 'decline'

MONTREAL - Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as...

Nov 22, 2020

Canada's first Indigenous-led coast guard auxiliary patrols B.C.'s rugged coast

VICTORIA - The winds were gusting at 110 kilometres per hour and huge waves were ripping boats from their moorings in Bella Bella, B.C., as a report came in of an overturned vessel with at least one p...

Nov 22, 2020

COVID-19 case loads keep surging in Canada as 3 provinces report new one-day highs

OTTAWA - At least three provinces have reported new highs for daily COVID-19 infections a day after the federal government' urged Canadians to be more proactive in helping to bring the surging virus b...

Nov 21, 2020

Canada, Britain strike new trade, beating Brexit, incorporating expiring EU pact

OTTAWA - Canada and Britain have struck a new trade deal, beating the Dec. 31 Brexit deadline that would have triggered new tariffs on a range of Canadian exports.The interim deal will replace Canada'...

Nov 21, 2020

A long way from lab bench to bedside: Virus experts urge COVID-19 vaccine caution

Despite recent optimism over reported results from COVID-19 vaccine trials, virologists say there is still a long way from lab bench to bedside. "You would think by this stage of the pandemic we would...

Nov 21, 2020