Canada

B.C.'s snap election means 700k ballots will be counted manually, delaying results

VANCOUVER - British Columbia residents won't learn the results of next Saturday's snap election for at least two weeks after polls close thanks to the need to count hundreds of thousands of mail-in ba...

Oct 18, 2020

Chief public health officer calls for continued 'collective effort' against COVID-19

TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer urged residents to continue making a "collective effort" to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday as parts of the country braced for new rounds of res...

Oct 17, 2020

Chief public health officer calls for continued 'collective effort' against COVID-19

TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer urged residents to continue making a "collective effort" to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday as parts of the country braced for new rounds of res...

Oct 17, 2020

Fire destroys lobster pound in Nova Scotia, police say man in hospital with injuries

A First Nations leader called on Ottawa to send the military into fishing communities in southwestern Nova Scotia after a suspicious fire at a lobster pound early Saturday capped a week of rising tens...

Oct 17, 2020

Early figures for new aid and EI provide glimpse of how post-CERB supports to be used

OTTAWA - The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down.A breakdown of applications for the simplifi...

Oct 17, 2020

Early figures for new aid and EI provide glimpse of how post-CERB supports to be used

OTTAWA - The employment insurance system absorbed almost 1.3 million people in the last three weeks, new figures show, as a key COVID-19 benefit wound down.A breakdown of applications for the simplifi...

Oct 17, 2020

Trudeau says feds want fixes, not control, of long-term care system

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no intention of trying to assert federal jurisdiction over long-term care facilities but still believes there is a role for Ottawa to play in fixing ...

Oct 16, 2020

Liberals propose special committee to examine pandemic-related spending

OTTAWA - The minority Liberal government is attempting to pre-empt opposition efforts to create a special committee to investigate alleged corruption by proposing its own special committee to examine ...

Oct 16, 2020

Horgan highlights views of other Liberal candidates after Throness resignation

PITT MEADOWS, B.C. - New Democrat Leader John Horgan says the resignation of a B.C. Liberal candidate in the provincial election for comments on contraception and eugenics represents a failure of the ...

Oct 16, 2020

Lawsuit filed in case of man who killed himself after release from Regina hospital

REGINA - The family of a young man who took his own life after going to a hospital twice in one day during a mental-health crisis is suing the Saskatchewan Health Authority and the provincial governme...

Oct 16, 2020