Canada

'We've been there before:' National phone line launches to prevent overdose deaths

A new Canada-wide phone line aims to prevent deadly overdoses by connecting anyone who is alone and using drugs with peers who can quickly call for help if things take a bad turn. "People who have exp...

Dec 20, 2020

Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that's turned out...

Dec 20, 2020

Emotional Dr. Theresa Tam very thankful for speed of COVID-19 vaccine delivery

OTTAWA - Canada's top public health officer has been a model of stoicism through the first year of COVID-19, but Dr. Theresa Tam still got a little choked up last week when the first Canadians were in...

Dec 20, 2020

Traditional knowledge at centre of efforts to protect land from shipwreck's fuel

BLIGH ISLAND - Not far from an oily sheen on the waters of British Columbia's Nootka Sound is a site that the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation considers the centre of the world. Dorothy Hunt, who is p...

Dec 20, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report

Canada has surpassed 500,000 cases of COVID-19 as infections continue to surge in several provinces. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold today, with 252 new cases reported. Earlier...

Greg Fry Dec 19, 2020

First New Brunswick vaccinations begin at nursing home in Miramichi

MIRAMICHI, N.B. - New Brunswick started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Saturday with the inoculation of an 84-year-old nursing home resident who said needles don't bother her in the least. Pauli...

Dec 19, 2020

Air search off N.S. coast suspended until Sunday for missing scallop fishermen

HILLSBURN, N.S. - The aerial search for five fishermen who were working on a scallop boat when it sank in the Bay of Fundy has been suspended until Sunday, and the ground search has been called off in...

Dec 19, 2020

Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, t...

Dec 19, 2020

A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world's poor: Gould

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could - wrestling a sizable increase in C...

Dec 19, 2020

Carole James, former B.C. finance minister, says she was driven to give back

VICTORIA - Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last ...

Dec 19, 2020