Canada

Pfizer, AstraZeneca preventing hospitalizations from Delta variant in Britain

OTTAWA - A new study in England suggests the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are extremely good at keeping people from ending up in the hospital with COVID-19, even after just one dose...

Jun 14, 2021

Two charged in Saskatchewan Mountie's death make first court appearance in Regina

REGINA - Two people accused of killing a Mountie by hitting the officer with a truck in rural Saskatchewan made their first appearance today in a Regina court. Alphonse Stanley Traverse, who is 41, an...

Jun 14, 2021

Former Green MP Jenica Atwin adjusts position on Israel after joining Liberal caucus

OTTAWA - Jenica Atwin has adjusted her position on Israel to align with the governing Liberal party she joined just four days ago. The Fredericton MP left the Greens on Thursday after openly criticizi...

Jun 14, 2021

B.C.'s next step in safe restart plan includes provincial travel, indoor activities

VICTORIA - British Columbia is taking its next forward steps to reopening the province by relaxing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on indoor activities, gatherings and travel within the province starti...

Jun 14, 2021

Communities grapple with what to do with former residential and day schools

The national spotlight on residential schools is also highlighting a difficult question facing some communities over what to do with the buildings that have been left behind. British Columbia's Okanag...

Jun 14, 2021

Canadian business leaders demand plan to reopen borders, economy now

OTTAWA - Business leaders are calling on Ottawa to immediately lay out a comprehensive plan to reopen the economy and international borders along with a vaccine certification process. At a news confer...

Jun 14, 2021

Canada's vaccine donations to COVAX to come only from its COVAX supply: Gould

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould confirms none of the 13 million doses Canada is currently promising to donate to COVAX will come from supplies procured directly from vaccine m...

Jun 14, 2021

Health officer says risk to others low: Two cases of COVID-19 at Iqaluit school

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says two COVID-19 cases at Iqaluit's middle school came from household transmission and the risk to other students is low. With an outbreak ong...

Jun 14, 2021

Conservative MP Tim Uppal sorry for role in 'divisiveness' of Harper-era policies

OTTAWA - A former Conservative cabinet minister is apologizing for not pushing against his party's culturally divisive polices of the Stephen Harper era, including an effort to ban face coverings duri...

Jun 14, 2021

Liberal cabinet ministers criticize senior military officers who golfed with Vance

OTTAWA - Liberal cabinet ministers are expressing their dismay after senior military officers recently joined former defence chief Jonathan Vance for a game of golf in Ottawa. Deputy Prime Minister Ch...

Jun 14, 2021