Canada

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

Canada's labour unions could play big role in efforts to avert 'Buy American' rules

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Canada's largest private-sector unions could be among those with their hands on the helm next year when the time comes to navigate the shoals of Joe Biden's proposed Buy American ru...

Nov 21, 2020

Trudeau's efforts to bring rivals onside falters in face of new COVID-19 modelling

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's effort to try and bring rivals onside to help communicate the dramatic implications of rising COVID-19 infections appears to have faltered. While Trudeau stood...

Nov 20, 2020

Border officer denies in court that RCMP asked for Huawei exec's phone codes

VANCOUVER - The border officer who led Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's immigration exam before her arrest at Vancouver's airport says he doesn't believe RCMP asked him to collect the passcodes to her ...

Nov 20, 2020

'Hardship is not a new thing': Nunavut fights COVID-19 as cases continue to rise

IQALUIT - It has been just over two weeks since Nunavut declared its first case of COVID-19, but it's still unknown how 84 people were infected so quickly in the territory. Nunavut is home to about 39...

Nov 20, 2020

Extend mandate of election-interference warning panel, evaluation recommends

OTTAWA - A new evaluation says the Trudeau government should consider activating its election-interference warning system not just during the next general campaign but also in the pre-writ period. For...

Nov 20, 2020

Judge to seal interviews of Minassian that psychiatrist says may incite violence

TORONTO - The judge overseeing the van attack trial has begrudgingly granted a request to seal all recordings of interviews the accused had with an American psychiatrist who had warned the videos coul...

Nov 20, 2020

Feds need better data on COVID-19 in Indigenous communities: Miller

OTTAWA - A rapid rise in the number of active COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities on reserve - especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan - likely does not tell the full story due to lack of data,...

Nov 20, 2020