Canada

NDP's Collins revives calls for environment commissioner to be stand-alone office

OTTAWA - NDP environment critic Laurel Collins is reviving a call for the environment commissioner to be a stand-alone officer of Parliament. Collins is pushing a motion at the House of Commons enviro...

Nov 23, 2020

Long-awaited federal rent subsidy program for businesses hurt by COVID-19 opens today

OTTAWA - Businesses struggling to pay the bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic will be able to start applying today for a long-awaited new commercial rent-relief program offered by the federal gover...

Nov 23, 2020

Psychiatrist set to testify for defence at Toronto's van attack trial

TORONTO - A psychiatrist is set to testify for the defence today in the murder trial for the man who killed 10 people after driving a van down a crowded Toronto sidewalk. Dr. John Bradford is set to p...

Nov 23, 2020

Hearing continues in extradition case involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou

VANCOUVER - A hearing continues today in the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was arrested at the Vancouver airport in 2018 at the request of American officials. B.C. Supreme Cou...

Nov 23, 2020

New COVID-19 restrictions coming into effect as case numbers soar across Canada

Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.Surging case counts that re...

Nov 22, 2020

Trudeau joins G20 in promising COVID-19 aid to poor nations, rejecting protectionism

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining fellow leaders at the G20 in a promise to provide more assistance to poor countries battered by COVID-19, including the provision of vaccines for all....

Nov 22, 2020

More provinces sign up for rent benefit as Liberals set up promised housing council

OTTAWA - Seven provinces have signed on to a federal rent assistance program created as part of the national housing strategy, newly released documents show. So far, the Liberals have only announced d...

Nov 22, 2020

Exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying-bill slammed by psychiatrists

OTTAWA - The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illne...

Nov 22, 2020

Angst around French language boils over in Quebec, as politicians warn of 'decline'

MONTREAL - Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as...

Nov 22, 2020

Canada's first Indigenous-led coast guard auxiliary patrols B.C.'s rugged coast

VICTORIA - The winds were gusting at 110 kilometres per hour and huge waves were ripping boats from their moorings in Bella Bella, B.C., as a report came in of an overturned vessel with at least one p...

Nov 22, 2020