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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021.There are 831,577 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 831,577 confirmed cases (35,669 active, 774,...

Feb 16, 2021

Petitclerc recounts her own experience with disability in final MAID bill debate

OTTAWA - Sen. Chantal Petitclerc has recounted her own experience with a disability in a bid to counter criticism of a bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying. Disability-rights groups ar...

Feb 16, 2021

Ottawa urged to grant permanent residency to wrongfully arrested Quebec man

MONTREAL - Ottawa is being urged to grant permanent residency to a Quebec man who was wrongfully arrested, charged with attempted murder of a police officer and detained for six days before being let ...

Feb 16, 2021

Statistics Canada report says agency not at fault in leak of April 2020 job-loss data

OTTAWA - A final investigation report on how last April's jobs report leaked out early says Statistics Canada wasn't the source, confirming early suspicions from agency officials that the unauthorized...

Feb 16, 2021

Canada's vaccine supply from Europe remains secure: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he received further reassurance this week that Canada's expected supply of COVID-19 vaccines is secure. Trudeau says he spoke this morning with European Com...

Feb 16, 2021

Newfoundland sees COVID-19 cases decline as variant threat simmers

OTTAWA - Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting a sharp downturn in daily COVID-19 cases, with seven new cases confirmed today as fears over a rapidly spreading variant of the virus linger on the isla...

Feb 16, 2021

Labour group demands meeting over COVID-19 outbreak at Olymel pork plant in Alberta

RED DEER, Alta. - The president of the Alberta Federation of Labour wants a meeting with the premier and provincial labour minister to ensure workplaces with COVID-19 outbreaks are shut down. Gil McGo...

Feb 16, 2021

O'Toole calls for relocation of Beijing Olympics due to China's 'genocide' of Uighurs

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is calling on the government to push for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China amid "genocide" against minority Uighurs."I think Canadians would ...

Feb 16, 2021

'A lot of talk': warrants violated Patrik Mathews' rights, lawyer argues

WASHINGTON - The lawyer for Patrik Mathews is trying to contest some of the evidence against the former Canadian Forces reservist and alleged neo-Nazi. Joseph Balter is also urging a Maryland judge to...

Feb 16, 2021

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada on Feb. 16, 2021

OTTAWA - The latest developments on the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada (all times eastern): 10:50 a.m. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's been reassured again by the president of the European Commis...

Feb 16, 2021