Canada

Criminal laws violate charter rights of sex workers, advocates say in court challenge

OTTAWA - An alliance of 25 sex worker rights groups is asking the Ontario Court of Justice to strike down several sections of the Criminal Code as unconstitutional. The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work ...

Mar 30, 2021

Masonic halls in North Vancouver, Vancouver hit by separate fires early Tuesday

VANCOUVER - Fire crews have responded to separate fires at three buildings operated by the Freemason society in Metro Vancouver. North Vancouver RCMP say in a statement a fire broke out just before 7 ...

Mar 30, 2021

Liberals should drive daycare improvements, not redo system, report says

OTTAWA - A new report is urging the Trudeau Liberals to embrace "aggressive incrementalism" on their promised path toward a national child-care system, arguing the government should quickly build on w...

Mar 30, 2021

Ottawa announces one-year extension to anti-ISIL mission, but offers few details

OTTAWA - Canada is staying in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for another year. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced this afternoon that Canada will keep up to 850 troop...

Mar 30, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Tuesday, March 30

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:45 a.m. Health officials in Prince Edward Island are reporting three new cases of COVID-19 today. They involve two people und...

Mar 30, 2021

Canadians far more wary of AstraZeneca than other COVID-19 vaccines: Poll

OTTAWA - Canadians are much more wary about being injected with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine than they are about receiving other vaccines approved for use in Canada, a new poll suggests. Just 53 per...

Greg Fry Mar 30, 2021

1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine expected to arrive from U.S. today

The federal government is expecting around 1.5 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the United States today.The vaccines are expected to arrive by truck and represent the first to come...

Mar 30, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on March 30, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday March 30, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 187,207 new vaccinations administered for a total of 5,300,964 d...

Mar 30, 2021

Health Canada asks Oxford-AstraZeneca for more vaccine info: In The News for March 30

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 Tuesday, March 30...What we are watching in Ca...

Mar 30, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, March 29, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Monday March 29, 2021. There are 971,715 confirmed cases in Canada. Canada: 971,715 confirmed cases (45,208 active, 903,6...

Mar 29, 2021