Canada

PM's chief of staff offers to testify on Vance sexual misconduct allegations

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff has offered to testify at a House of Commons committee studying allegations of sexual misconduct against Canada's former top military commander....

May 06, 2021

Canada must sanction Vladimir Putin's oligarchs: Alexei Navalny's chief of staff

OTTAWA - The chief of staff to Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned critic of the Russian president, is calling on Ottawa to impose new sanctions on those who he described as "Vladimir Putin's oligarchs." L...

May 06, 2021

No tickets, charges issued in Quebec for travellers violating hotel quarantine order

MONTREAL - Quebec's public prosecutions bureau says it hasn't issued tickets or filed criminal charges for violations of the national health order requiring travellers arriving in Canada to quarantine...

May 06, 2021

Alberta eases security payment burden for oilsands companies

EDMONTON - Alberta is changing how it calculates the payments oilsands mines make to ensure there's enough money to clean up the mess they leave behind. The province says the decision is in reaction t...

May 06, 2021

Coroner role after strep-throat death of Indigenous child before Ontario's top court

TORONTO - The failure of a coroner to fully investigate the death of a four-year-old Indigenous boy was part of a systemic dereliction of duty that ought to face legal scrutiny, Ontario's top court he...

May 06, 2021

NACI chair says advice not meant to give AstraZeneca recipients vaccine remorse

OTTAWA - The chair of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization says people who already got the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should not feel they made a bad choice. Dr. Caroline Quach and the othe...

May 06, 2021

Federal government under fire for stopping short of U.S. commitment on vaccine waiver

WASHINGTON - Ottawa has yet to follow the United States on easing patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines - and critics and allies alike are noticing. The One Campaign, a progressive anti-poverty gro...

May 06, 2021

House parties and other gatherings blamed for Iqaluit's rise in COVID-19 cases

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says house parties and visits between households are to blame for a rise in COVID-19 cases in Iqaluit. Dr. Michael Patterson says he knows of a...

May 06, 2021

NDP promises foreign buyers' tax, half a million new homes to cool housing market

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pledging a hefty foreign home buyers' tax and "massive" investment in housing to chill a boiling-hot real estate market. Singh's election campaign-style promise, u...

May 06, 2021

Supreme Court will hear appeal of Quebec money laundering case quashed over delays

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal in a case where the conviction of four people accused of money laundering on behalf of the Hells Angels was quashed over unreasonable legal del...

May 06, 2021