Canada

CP NewsAlert: B.C. delays return to class for most students until Jan. 10 over COVID

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is delaying the full return to classrooms in January to allow public health officials to assess the impact of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and give school staff time to im...

Dec 29, 2021

Border agency closes two Atlantic offices due to COVID-19 infections, close contacts

OTTAWA - Canada's border agency said it is temporarily closing two ports of entry in the Atlantic region due to COVID-19. The Canada Border Services Agency said the affected offices are in Bathurst, N...

Dec 29, 2021

Toronto preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff amid COVID-19 surge

City of Toronto officials say they are preparing to redeploy hundreds of staff to support critical and essential services in response to a surge in new COVID-19 cases fuelled by the highly contagious ...

Dec 29, 2021

Conservative MP questions delay in suicide hotline as COVID-19 crisis calls continue

OTTAWA - A Conservative member of Parliament is questioning why a national suicide-prevention hotline approved by the House of Commons last year still does not exist. MPs from all parties voted in Dec...

Dec 29, 2021

CPP premiums are getting a bigger bump than planned. Here's why.

OTTAWA - Jan. 1 is going to feel like Groundhog Day for all those paying into the Canada Pension Plan. Like last year, contributions are going up again by more than originally planned, and the reason ...

Dec 29, 2021

Fire on board Canadian warship could have been avoided: Navy commander

OTTAWA - Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Craig Baines says the fire that broke out on board HMCS Fredericton last month while the frigate was sailing off the coast of Norway could have been...

Dec 29, 2021

Quebec, Ontario set new COVID-19 records as provinces mull easing isolation rules

Ontario and Quebec are both reporting new COVID-19 case records today, as Canadian provinces explore changing isolation rules to keep health systems afloat amid an unprecedented wave of infections. On...

Dec 29, 2021

Nunavut extends lockdown as COVID-19 infections surge in the province

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is extending its "circuit-breaker'' lockdown as a rise in COVID-19 infections pushes the territory's health-care system to a breaking point. The territory's chief public hea...

Dec 29, 2021

Author Yann Martel, former senator Murray Sinclair among 135 named to Order of Canada

OTTAWA - In a renovated shed in his garden, author Yann Martel drafts and redrafts his best sellers. The novelist writes in English, although his first language is French, and his work - including "Li...

Dec 29, 2021

COVID cases rising, Jason Kenney hoping for 2022 bounceback : In The News for Dec. 29

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 29... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

Dec 29, 2021