Canada

Amidst a tough and sad year, a Halifax choir creates a concert of communal lament

HALIFAX - In a year of pandemic, mass murder and military tragedies, a choir on Canada's East Coast has created a concert that gives singers, a poet and their online audience an outlet for communal la...

Nov 08, 2020

Veterans connect with students online in lead-up to pandemic-era Remembrance Day

Gulf War veteran Bob Crane has been busy in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day, adjusting his classroom presentations to an array of online platforms. Crane, a retired Army major who volunteers a...

Nov 08, 2020

Federal guidance for border agency surveillance and sources drafted but never issued

OTTAWA - A newly released memo shows Canada's border agency signed off on rules to guide its most intrusive intelligence operations months ago, but the federal government has yet to issue the minister...

Nov 08, 2020

COVID-19 latest bump in Canada's long road to Second World War remembrance

OTTAWA - Annie McNamara was in a hostel in Piccadilly Circus when the news came that Nazi Germany had been defeated. She vividly remembers that excitement that swept through the streets of London on M...

Nov 08, 2020

Bloc Quebecois MP Alain Therrien in isolation after positive COVID-19 test

OTTAWA - Bloc Quebecois House leader Alain Therrien has tested positive for COVID-19.The party issued a statement late Friday saying the Montreal-area MP is isolating at his home in the riding of La P...

Nov 07, 2020

Kamala Harris's Canadian classmates celebrate after her vice-presidential win

MONTREAL - Kamala Harris became the first woman and first person of colour elected vice-president of the United States on Saturday, a victory that holds a special meaning for her former schoolmates an...

Nov 07, 2020

Trudeau congratulates Joe Biden on victory in U.S. presidential election

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau eagerly ushered in a new era of co-operation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday, as Alberta's Jason Kenney made a thinly-veiled request to preserve ...

Nov 07, 2020

Five ways Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election could affect Canada

OTTAWA - The election of Democrat Joe Biden as the next president of the United States is expected to have wide-ranging implications for Canadian politics and policy. Here are five areas to watch. Env...

Nov 07, 2020

COVID-19 continues to surge in parts of Canada, new daily high reported in Ontario

The number of COVID-19 cases continued to soar in parts of Canada on Saturday, with Ontario reaching a new one-day high and Quebec breaking past 1,000 daily infections for the fourth straight day.Mult...

Nov 07, 2020

After waiting with bated breath, Canadians welcome Biden's win with open arms

Canadians across the country ushered in what they hoped would be a new, calmer era of relations with the United States on Saturday, welcoming U.S. president-elect Joe Biden with open arms. Relations w...

Nov 07, 2020