Canada

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

COVID-19 case loads keep surging in Canada as 3 provinces report new one-day highs

OTTAWA - At least three provinces have reported new highs for daily COVID-19 infections a day after the federal government' urged Canadians to be more proactive in helping to bring the surging virus b...

Nov 21, 2020

Canada, Britain strike new trade, beating Brexit, incorporating expiring EU pact

OTTAWA - Canada and Britain have struck a new trade deal, beating the Dec. 31 Brexit deadline that would have triggered new tariffs on a range of Canadian exports.The interim deal will replace Canada'...

Nov 21, 2020

A long way from lab bench to bedside: Virus experts urge COVID-19 vaccine caution

Despite recent optimism over reported results from COVID-19 vaccine trials, virologists say there is still a long way from lab bench to bedside. "You would think by this stage of the pandemic we would...

Nov 21, 2020

Canada, Britain agree to new trade deal

OTTAWA - Canada and Britain have struck a new trade deal, beating the Dec. 31 Brexit deadline that would have triggered new tariffs on a range of Canadian exports.The interim deal will replace Canada'...

Nov 21, 2020

After COVID-related transplant delays, 16-year-old N.S. girl gets lung transplant

HALIFAX - A teenaged girl who set out with her grandmother and mother last spring on a 1,800-kilometre RV trip to seek her new lungs has received the life-changing operation in an era of COVID-related...

Nov 21, 2020

After COVID-related transplant delays, 16-year-old N.S. girl gets lung transplant

HALIFAX - A teenaged girl who set out with her grandmother and mother last spring on a 1,800-kilometre RV trip to seek her new lungs has received the life-changing operation in an era of COVID-related...

Nov 21, 2020

Vancouver's climate plan 'first 10 steps in a journey of 10,000,' says expert

VANCOUVER - Motorists would have to pay a fee to drive into Vancouver's downtown core under a plan to slow climate change, but one expert says while city council's goals are laudable, they could also ...

Nov 21, 2020