Canada

Orchard Villa families detail conditions at facility before long-term care commission

Residents of a long-term care home hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic were crammed into overstuffed rooms and denied access to life-saving treatment because the facility was short on both staff and equ...

Nov 13, 2020

StatCan survey finds one in three businesses on edge as second wave crashes

OTTAWA - A new survey from Statistics Canada finds nearly one-third of businesses do not know how long they can continue under existing conditions brought by the second wave of COVID-19. The survey sa...

Greg Fry Nov 13, 2020

Change of power in the U.S. an opportunity for Canada's immigration goals: minister

OTTAWA - Federal Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says he sees opportunity for Canada's immigration system with a new president of the United States. Incoming president Joe Biden has taken a...

Nov 13, 2020

Supreme Court of Canada sides with Hydro-Québec over plan for new transmission line

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says Hydro-Qubec has the right to construct a new electric-power transmission line along an existing corridor running from the Quebec City area to Laval. The story...

Nov 13, 2020

Quebec considers closing schools to slow COVID transmission: In The News for Nov. 13

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 13 ...What we are watching in Canada ...T...

Nov 13, 2020

COVID-19 testing down as positive case numbers soar in most provinces

OTTAWA - Two months after the City of Ottawa scrambled to expand its COVID-19 testing options to deal with a massive spike in demand, it is now set to cut back on hours at testing sites this weekend b...

Greg Fry Nov 13, 2020

B.C. top doctor says Santa 'probably' immune to COVID but Christmas will be different

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor has some good news about Christmas. Dr. Bonnie Henry says Santa Claus is "probably" immune to COVID-19, but Christmas will still look a little different this y...

Nov 13, 2020

Former B.C. minister Kash Heed can cross examine witness at money laundering inquiry

VANCOUVER - Former British Columbia cabinet minister Kash Heed has been granted limited participant status at the public inquiry into money laundering so he can cross-examine a former RCMP officer. Co...

Nov 13, 2020

N.L. public health has COVID advice for the holiday mummering tradition

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador public health officials have issued advice for those looking to stay COVID-safe while marauding around town with underwear on the outside of their clothes....

Nov 12, 2020

First Nation to file series of lawsuits against N.S. government, commercial fishers

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - A Mi'kmaq First Nation that encountered violence after it opened a self-regulated lobster fishery says it will sue non-Indigenous fishers and the Nova Scotia government for allege...

Nov 12, 2020