Canada

Liberals take step on national child-care system, promise plan coming in 2021 budget

OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing millions of dollars in new spending as a down payment on a planned national child-care system that the Liberals say will be outlined in next spring's budge...

Nov 30, 2020

Ottawa beefs up loans for hard-hit sectors — but big airlines not included for now

Ottawa is rolling out a wave of new funding for pandemic-battered industries including tourism, the arts and regional aviation, with smaller companies top of mind - and large airlines notably absent. ...

Nov 30, 2020

Spending too little worse than spending too much, Freeland says in fall update

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's first fall mini-budget finds new funds for families and businesses and scratches a longtime provincial itch over transfer payments as she tries to find a ...

Nov 30, 2020

Review finds no evidence of alcohol game at B.C. ERs, but vast Indigenous profiling

VICTORIA - A former judge says she found widespread systemic racism in British Columbia's health-care system, but she could not confirm allegations of an organized game to guess the blood-alcohol leve...

Nov 30, 2020

Quebec urged to create national director of youth protection to oversee system

MONTREAL - A provincial commission looking into the protection of vulnerable children in Quebec is recommending the appointment of a youth-protection watchdog to oversee the entire provincial system. ...

Nov 30, 2020

Ontario premier pushes for clear delivery date for COVID-19 vaccines

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants a clear delivery date for the province's share of COVID-19 vaccines, stressing that "the clock is ticking" when it comes to fighting the novel coronavirus. Ford...

Nov 30, 2020

Quebec booksellers' group apologizes, republishes post outlining premier's top reads

MONTREAL - An association of Quebec booksellers says it acted in haste when it removed an online list outlining reading recommendations from Premier Francois Legault. Legault shared some of his favour...

Nov 30, 2020

No text of Canada-U.K. trade deal, minister says as Dec. 31 tariff deadline looms

OTTAWA - Canada's International Trade Minister Mary Ng says she guarantee that MPs will see a bill to ratify the new provisional Canada-Britain trade agreement before Parliament breaks for Christmas o...

Nov 30, 2020

Nunavut to start lifting its two-week lockdown as COVID-19 cases recover

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is to start lifting a two-week lockdown on Wednesday as more people infected with COVID-19 recover. The lockdown that shuttered all schools and non-essential businesse...

Nov 30, 2020

Restoring civil liberties in Canada post-pandemic a concern for legal experts

TORONTO - Canadians willingly, unwillingly, and sometimes unknowingly, gave up some of their civil liberties over the past eight months to try and slow the spread of COVID-19. Legal experts who specia...

Nov 30, 2020