Canada

More than 880,000 Canadian jobs vulnerable in global clean energy transition

OTTAWA - More than 880,000 Canadians work in industries at risk of decline or closure in the global transition to clean energy, a new analysis says. The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices is warni...

Oct 21, 2021

Calls for drug decriminalization, "Squid Game" concerns : In The News for Oct. 21

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 Oct. 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Oct 21, 2021

B.C. forests minister introduces bill to overhaul forest practices

VICTORIA - British Columbia's forests minister has introduced a bill to amend the Forest and Range Practices Act in what she says will "reshape" forest management in the province. Katrine Conroy told ...

Oct 20, 2021

Health-care workers demand Trudeau fast track paid sick-leave policy

OTTAWA - A coalition of front-line health-care workers has asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fast-track proposed legislative amendments to grant paid sick leave to federally regulated workers. Tr...

Oct 20, 2021

Closed six weeks: Yellowknife schools to reopen Monday as COVID-19 cases decline

YELLOWKNIFE - Schools in Yellowknife and surrounding areas are to reopen Monday after a six-week closure during a widespread outbreak of COVID-19 in the Northwest Territories. Cases have declined in t...

Oct 20, 2021

More needed to prevent deaths from climate-change driven heat waves, fires: report

OTTAWA - A new report examining the health impacts of climate change says more Canadians than ever are facing serious health risks from heat waves and wildfires, prompting warnings from doctors that w...

Oct 20, 2021

Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cries as he presents COVID-19 modelling

REGINA - Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer cried Wednesday during a teleconference on COVID-19 modelling in the province. Dr. Saqib Shahab said it's upsetting to see what is happening in Sas...

Oct 20, 2021

Trudeau urged to make decriminalization of illicit drugs a priority

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being urged to decriminalize the possession and use of illicit drugs as a way to combat the opioid crisis that has resulted in thousands of deaths in Canada. ...

Oct 20, 2021

Annual inflation rate hits 4.4 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says

OTTAWA - The cost to put food on the table and gasoline in the car pushed up the cost of living in September, lifting the annual pace of price increases to a near two-decade high with no clear end in ...

Greg Fry Oct 20, 2021

Land acknowledgment by Habs may be a mistake: Quebec Indigenous affairs minister

MONTREAL - Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenire says a Montreal Canadiens' land acknowledgment that refers to unceded territory of the Mohawk Nation may be a mistake. The statement, which ...

Oct 20, 2021