Canada

Border screenings and smartphone apps: A look at Alberta's relaunch strategy

EDMONTON - Albertan Premier Jason Kenney has announced some details about what he calls the province's relaunch strategy. The plan focuses on gradually boosting the economy while preventing a sec...

Apr 08, 2020

More COVID-19 aid, PPE needed for First Nations and Metis, leaders say

OTTAWA - First Nations and Metis leaders say they need more from Ottawa to combat COVID-19 in their communities, including money, assistance with security and help acquiring protec...

Apr 08, 2020

N.W.T. creates enforcement squad for public health orders around COVID-19

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories is creating a squad of public health officers to enforce orders around the COVID-19 epidemic. N.W.T.'s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kami Kandol...

Apr 08, 2020

Canada won't tip hand on possibility of import tariffs on Saudi oil

OTTAWA - Canada's energy minister will speak to his U.S. and Mexican counterparts Thursday in a bid to generate a common front ahead of talks by the world's biggest economies aimed at ending the ...

Apr 08, 2020

Politicians ask public to work from home, but are they taking their own advice?

Canada's politicians have been urging the public to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, but a look at federal and provincial leaders suggests not all of them are following their own a...

Apr 08, 2020

Calgary woman who died of COVID-19 was expecting 2020 to be best year: husband

CALGARY - A Calgary man whose wife died of COVID-19 last month says the two of them were expecting 2020 to be the best year of their lives. But things changed quickly in mid-March when Deb Diemer...

Apr 08, 2020

Demographic data 'essential' to track impacts of COVID-19: researchers

OTTAWA - Researchers are calling for more detailed data on who is getting and dying from COVID-19, to find out if specific minority or socioeconomic groups are unduly impacted. The Unit...

Apr 08, 2020

Armed Forces reports 20 military suicides last year, largest number since 2014

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has quietly revealed that 20 service members took their own lives last year, the largest number of military suicides since 2014. The increase comes despite the feder...

Apr 08, 2020

Landowners and legal experts criticize Alberta's well cleanup bill

EDMONTON - Landowners and legal experts are criticizing Alberta's hastily passed new legislation intended to help clean up the province's huge stockpile of abandoned energy facilities. The bill, which...

Apr 08, 2020

Canada-U.S. ties getting 'constant gardening' to protect supply lines: Freeland

WASHINGTON - Canada's deputy prime minister says the country's relationship with the United States is getting "constant gardening" as the federal government works to keep supply lines open despite the...

Apr 08, 2020