Canada

Vancouver Convention Centre picked for off site COVID-19 treatment centre

VICTORIA - Vancouver's waterfront convention centre is being prepared as a health facility in British Columbia's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Monday. The centre...

Mar 30, 2020

Donated organs not being used as hospitals scale back transplants for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Transplant centres across the country have massively scaled back organ transplants as hospitals try to make sure they are able to accommodate COVID-19 cases. Hospitals are reserving ventilato...

Mar 30, 2020

Canada's spy service moves quietly ahead with data-crunching plans: documents

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Canada's spy agency is moving ahead with plans to collect and use databases containing personal information about Canadians. The Canadian Security Intelligence S...

Mar 30, 2020

N.S. woman describes struggles of a beloved father on a ventilator with COVID-19

The daughter of a Nova Scotia man relying on a ventilator to breathe wants Canadians to know that COVID-19 can deny loved ones the ability to hold one another in their ti...

Mar 30, 2020

Two inmates, nine employees at Quebec prison test positive for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution. The Correctional Service of ...

Mar 30, 2020

Canadian military ready to mobilize 24,000 troops for COVID-19: defence minister

OTTAWA - The crews of two Royal Canadian Navy vessels were ordered to sequester in a Halifax hotel for two weeks as the federal government announced Monday that it is ready to mobilize up to 24,000 Ca...

Mar 30, 2020

Ferry operators call for inclusion in COVID-19 travel restrictions

OTTAWA - As new restrictions came into effect barring people with symptoms of COVID-19 from planes and trains, ferry operators called for the federal government to ban such travellers from their vesse...

Mar 30, 2020

Large business, non-profits, charities eligible for wage subsidy, Trudeau says

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says large and small businesses, non-profits and charities will all be eligible for a 75-per-cent subsidy on wages meant to cushion the blow from the COVID-19 pa...

Mar 30, 2020

Trudeau says he's 'proud' Canadians stepping up to challenge of COVID-19

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a measure of satisfaction from early indications that Canada's COVID-19 caseload is not on the same trajectory as that in the United States. While the ...

Mar 30, 2020

Cruise ships carrying Canadians on the move toward Florida

Two cruise ships carrying nearly 2,700 passengers and crew, including 248 Canadians are on the move after being stranded off the coast of Panama following the deaths of four passengers ...

Mar 30, 2020