Category Archives: Canada

Canada delays new drug-pricing regulations until January 2022
OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu is delaying the first big overhaul of Canada's patented-medicines pricing system for a third time. The regulations changing how the Patented Medicine Pricing Revie...
Jun 29, 2021

Budget officer says Liberals' gun buyback could cost up to $756 million
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says it could cost the government $756 million to buy back guns now prohibited in the country, depending on how many there are in Canada and how the Liberals ...
Jun 29, 2021

New all-time record set in B.C. as heat wave grips the West, slides into Manitoba
A record-breaking heat wave could ease over parts of British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories by tomorrow but any reprieve for the Prairie provinces is further off. Environment Canada says th...
Jun 29, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada on Tuesday, June 29, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 10:45 a.m. Prince Edward Island is reporting one new case of COVID-19 today. Health officials say the case involves a person in ...
Jun 29, 2021

Runway overshoot that destroyed 747 cargo jet in Halifax caused by many factors: TSB
HALIFAX - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says several factors contributed to a 2018 runway overshoot that destroyed a Boeing 747 cargo jet at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. In its...
Jun 29, 2021

Scorching temperatures, calls to end Ethiopian aid funding : In The News for June 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 June 29 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jun 29, 2021

'Information is missing': Quebec teachers want Indigenous history taught differently
MONTREAL - First Nations leaders and Quebec history teachers say the timing is right to reset the way Indigenous history is taught in primary and secondary schools across the province. The recent disc...
Jun 29, 2021

Ottawa must stop aid to Ethiopia in light of human rights violations: advocates
Ottawa should stop sending millions of dollars in aid to the Ethiopian government and push for creating a no-fly zone and delivering air-dropped food aid to the people of the Tigray region, who have b...
Jun 29, 2021

'You forget how tall you are': Paralyzed Humboldt Bronco able to stand during physio
CALGARY - Behind his face mask, sweat glistening on his forehead, Ryan Straschnitzki was smiling. The 22-year-old, paralyzed from the chest down when a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey ...
Jun 29, 2021

Heat wave has unusual characteristic, high nighttime temperatures, expert says
VANCOUVER - A stifling heat wave throughout much of Western Canada is unusual because of the nighttime temperatures it is bringing, says an expert. Temperatures are forecast to be higher overnight tha...
Jun 29, 2021