Canada

Alberta facing 'exponential growth' of COVID-19 cases: top doctor

EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province is at a dangerous plateau, with almost 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last three days, 20 new deaths and overwhelmed contact tra...

Nov 16, 2020

Murder trial begins for mother accused of beating daughter with belt, spatula

EDMONTON - Shalaina Arcand's siblings were asleep in another room when the five-year-old was hit in the head so hard that she died in hospital four days later, a trial judge heard Monday. The girl's m...

Nov 16, 2020

Manitoba reserve on lockdown after all residents at care home infected with COVID-19

WINNIPEG - Every resident of a long-term care home on a northern Manitoba reserve where the number of infections almost doubled in a day has tested positive for COVID-19, says the Indigenous community...

Nov 16, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Canada surpasses 300,000 COVID cases, more than 100,000 in past month

Canada reached a troubling milestone on Monday, surpassing 300,000 total COVID cases since the pandemic began earlier this year, and health experts are alarmed - but not surprised - by the rapid growt...

Nov 16, 2020

Trudeau government to usher in new privacy legislation

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is poised to introduce legislation aimed at better safeguarding the privacy of Canadians in the digital era.The bill, to be tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday, w...

Nov 16, 2020

'No government contracts' for companies that don't manufacture in U.S., Biden vows

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Joe Biden is doubling down on his promise to enforce Buy American policies once he becomes U.S. president in January. Biden says no government contracts will be given to compa...

Nov 16, 2020

Nunavut orders shutdown of non-essential businesses, schools as cases jump to 26

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer has ordered a two-week shutdown, starting Wednesday, of non-essential businesses and schools in the territory due to the spread of COVID-19.Mic...

Nov 16, 2020

Ottawa launches independent review of Canada's beleaguered military-justice system

OTTAWA - Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish is starting an outside examination of Canada's troubled military courts. The review comes as the military struggles with a variety of challenges to the regim...

Nov 16, 2020

Residential-school survivors call on Ottawa and provinces for monuments

OTTAWA - The director of that National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says Ottawa and provincial and territorial governments must build monuments in capital cities across Canada to honour residen...

Nov 16, 2020

Nova Scotia mass killing: Gunman said COVID-19 pandemic would make people desperate

HALIFAX - Newly released court documents say the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia this year had sent an email in March saying he was glad he was well-armed because the COVID-19 pandemic woul...

Nov 16, 2020