Category Archives: Canada
A look at COVID-19 reopening plans across the country
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational faciliti...
Jul 27, 2021
Montreal-area city running out of options to control population of white-tailed deer
MONTREAL - An animal-rescue group says the white-tailed deer population in a park on Montreal's south shore has more than doubled - months after the local government refused to euthanize about 15 of t...
Jul 27, 2021
Manitoba RCMP have spent years investigating abuse allegations at residential school
WINNIPEG - A residential school in Manitoba known for harsh discipline and fatal runaway attempts has been the focus of a large-scale, years-long investigation into sexual abuse allegations. Mounties ...
Jul 27, 2021
Canadian border workers vote in favour of striking as soon as Aug. 6, union says
Canadians could be facing mail disruptions and slowdowns at the border with the United States next month after members of a union representing about 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency employees vote...
Jul 27, 2021
It will take pressure to get some provinces to sign child-care deal: Trudeau
MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it will take pressure from activists, unions and family groups to get some provinces to sign on to his government's national child-care program. Trud...
Jul 27, 2021
Annamie Paul says Green party convention will go ahead even if election is underway
OTTAWA - Green Leader Annamie Paul says the party will hold a national convention next month even if a federal election campaign is in full swing. At a climate roundtable this morning, Paul told repor...
Jul 27, 2021
One-time payments to seniors over 75 likely to also go to the dead, documents say
OTTAWA - Canada's seniors minister was warned in the spring that the Liberal government's plan to send $500 payments to pensioners in August would end with some of the money going to people who had di...
Jul 27, 2021
Trudeau says Ottawa withholding 'millions of dollars' from N.B. over abortion access
MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is withholding millions of dollars in health-care transfers to New Brunswick because the province is limiting access to abortion. Trud...
Jul 27, 2021
Trudeau says Canadiens' selection of Logan Mailloux shows 'lack of judgment'
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that as a lifelong Montreal Canadiens fan he's "deeply disappointed" by the team's selection of Logan Mailloux in the NHL draft. Mailloux, who was picked ...
Jul 27, 2021
Only half of one per cent of new COVID-19 cases are in fully vaccinated: Trudeau
MONCTON, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Canadians who still have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine to roll up their sleeves, saying that the overwhelming majority of cases are in people wh...
Jul 27, 2021