Category Archives: Canada

From 'seaman' to 'sailor': the Royal Canadian Navy adopts gender-neutral titles
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Navy is changing the titles of its junior ranks to be more inclusive. The references to "seaman" in the English-language designations - ordinary, able, leading an...
Aug 27, 2020

Canada-China COVID-19 vaccine trials abandoned: National Research Council
HALIFAX - A COVID-19 vaccine-development partnership between China's CanSino Biologics and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia has been abandoned. The National Research Council of Canada sai...
Aug 27, 2020

Democrats deploy Harris in hopes of upstaging Trump's convention finale
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump will close out his party's national convention tonight by basking in the Republican limelight - but one of his Democrat rivals hopes to spoil the celebration. Sen. Kamala Har...
Aug 27, 2020

Bill Blair says prison segregation oversight panel will get the data it needs
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Bill Blair is stepping in to ensure an advisory panel tasked with overseeing the segregation of federal inmates will get the data it needs to do its job. Anth...
Aug 27, 2020

Indigenous-led alert system for N.S. Mi'kmaq communities ready to roll out
CAPE BRETON, N.S. - A new alert system that will issue emergency messages to residents in five Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq communities is the first of its kind among Indigenous people...
Aug 27, 2020

COVID-19 taking financial toll on Canadians with disabilities: survey
A Statistics Canada report suggests that more than half of Canadians with disabilities who participated in a crowdsourced survey are struggling to make ends meet because of the financial imp...
Aug 27, 2020

Explosion in mail-in voting expected if election held amid pandemic
OTTAWA - Elections Canada is bracing for an explosive increase in the number of Canadians who vote by mail should the country be plunged into an election during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public opin...
Aug 27, 2020

Macklem says central bankers must speak simply or risk losing public trust
OTTAWA - The head of the Bank of Canada is making an international pitch to his fellow central bankers to better connect with average citizens lest they lose public trust and face an&nb...
Aug 27, 2020

Many students in Quebec are back to school today amid COVID-19 worries
MONTREAL - There was a mixture of anxiety and regular back-to-school excitement Thursday morning as tens of thousands of Montreal-area children returned to class for...
Aug 27, 2020

Pandemic has brought Canada together, pushed Americans apart, poll suggests
WASHINGTON - Canadians believe the COVID-19 crisis has brought their country together, while Americans blame the pandemic for worsening their cultural and political divide, a new international pu...
Aug 27, 2020