Canada

Radiologists warn of growing backlog in medical imaging due to COVID-19 pandemic

Radiologists are warning that Canadian hospitals are in serious need of more equipment and staff to deal with medical imaging backlogs that the country was already facing before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Jan 12, 2022

Quebec no-vax tax, improved addictions services for inmates: In The News for Jan. 12

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 Jan. 12 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Greg Fry Jan 12, 2022

Canada has contracts for up to 100 million Pfizer, Moderna doses in 2022

OTTAWA - Federal COVID-19 vaccine contracts mean Canada should get enough doses to give two or three more mRNA shots to every Canadian, every year until at least 2024. But even as the National Advisor...

Jan 11, 2022

A look at the latest COVID-19 developments in Canada

A look at the latest COVID-19 news in Canada: - Quebec Premier Francois Legault says adult residents who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be charged a financial penalty. Legault says the...

Jan 11, 2022

Public hearings into 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting delayed until late February

HALIFAX - The commission of inquiry probing the mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives in 2020 is again delaying public hearings, saying they are now expected to begin late next month. The...

Jan 11, 2022

Quebec's tax on the unvaccinated could enhance inequity: Black Health Alliance

OTTAWA - The Black Health Alliance says Quebec's proposal to bring in a financial penalty for unvaccinated residents risks further entrenching inequities in Canada's pandemic response and eroding trus...

Jan 11, 2022

P.E.I. potato farmers seek end to trade suspension, but U.S. officials want more data

FREDERICTON - Farmers on Prince Edward Island say there's no scientific basis for a suspension of exports of Island potatoes to the United States and it needs to be lifted now, but Canadian officials ...

Jan 11, 2022

First Afghan human rights activists arrive six months after Ottawa's promise of help

OTTAWA - Six months after the federal government promised to help thousands of Afghan women leaders, human rights activists and journalists flee to Canada, the first planeload has landed. Immigration ...

Jan 11, 2022

RCMP commissioner breached duty with slow response to watchdog report, judge rules

OTTAWA - A federal judge says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki flouted the law by failing to respond promptly to a watchdog report about alleged spying on anti-oil protesters. In a newly released decisi...

Jan 11, 2022

Make Inuktitut official language in Canada, says Inuit rep on UN task force

OTTAWA - Canada is to spearhead a 10-year drive by the United Nations to revive and protect worldwide Indigenous languages, including endangered tongues such as Michif, the Mtis language. Aluki Kotier...

Jan 11, 2022