Canada

Teachers learn that online classes for foreign students come with geopolitical snags

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - In the midst of the summer scramble to get courses online at Memorial University in St. John's, Sonja Knutson realized there were political implications to remote learning she hadn'...

Oct 05, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 4

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:22 p.m. EDT on Oct. 4, 2020: There are 166,160 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 78,459 confirmed (including 5,878 deaths, 65,304 re...

Oct 04, 2020

Tam urges Thanksgiving caution amid recent rise in cases of COVID-19

Plan ahead to make sure this year's Thanksgiving holiday is safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's top public health officer urged on Sunday as case counts continued to soar in several parts...

Oct 04, 2020

Quebec coroner's office to launch public inquest into Joyce Echaquan's death

MONTREAL - A public inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman who filmed herself being insulted by Quebec hospital staff hours before she died will be launched as soon as possible, the province's ...

Oct 04, 2020

Advocates marking MMIW remembrance day note death of Indigenous woman in hospital

Those wondering whether Indigenous women's rights are still being violated need only look to the death of Joyce Echaquan for their answer, advocates said Sunday as they participated in an annual vigil...

Oct 04, 2020

Second Mi'kmaq fishery creating 'a big excitement' in small Cape Breton band

The leader of a First Nation in southern Cape Breton that has started Nova Scotia's second self-regulated commercial Indigenous fishery says it has created a mood of excitement and optimism in his sma...

Oct 04, 2020

'I wasn't afraid of death,' kidnapped British diplomat James Cross said upon release

OTTAWA - Just two days after he was freed, a British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec nationalists told Canadian officials he did not fear being killed in captivity. Rather, James Cross worried what would...

Oct 04, 2020

'The thing you do around here:' Prairie fall suppers adjust to COVID-19 reality

Vehicles lined up more than three kilometres along a rural Manitoba road on the last Sunday afternoon of September as their occupants waited to grab a traditional Ukrainian feast in a brown takeout ba...

Oct 04, 2020

'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry

One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...

Oct 04, 2020

'I don't want to go through this ever in my life again,' LTC resident tells inquiry

One by one, residents of Ontario's long-term care homes described the emotional devastation caused by the COVID-19 lockdown to an independent inquiry - and implored the governments ...

Oct 04, 2020