Canada

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 1:15 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2020: There are 213,726 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 99,235 confirmed (including 6,132 deaths, 83,819 r...

Oct 24, 2020

Nunavut's young people 'should be expecting more' from government services: advocate

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Basic information about young people who have used government services in Nunavut isn't being tracked because of "complacency and a lack of accountability," says the annual report f...

Oct 24, 2020

B.C. voters head to polling stations in snap election called during pandemic

22Voters in British Columbia cast ballots today in an election campaign that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic.NDP Leader John Horgan called the snap election one year before the fixed voti...

Oct 24, 2020

American voters living in Canada increasingly being counted in presidential race

OTTAWA - Soon Jenny Wiebe will drive from her Fredericton home to the Maine town where she was born, to retrieve the mail-in ballot her parents are holding for her. The 55-year-old dual Canadian-U. S....

Oct 24, 2020

B.C. voters head to polling stations in snap election called during pandemic

Voters in British Columbia cast ballots today in an election campaign that was largely defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. NDP Leader John Horgan called the snap election one year before the fixed votin...

Tanner King Oct 24, 2020

Ottawa appoints N.S. university president to help resolve Indigenous lobster dispute

The federal government has named a Nova Scotia university president to help resolve the Indigenous lobster fishery dispute. The Liberal government says it has appointed Allister Surette as a Fed...

Oct 23, 2020

Saskatchewan election: Leaders criticize track records in final stretch of campaign

Saskatchewan's two main political leaders criticized each other's track records Friday as they urged people to vote in the home stretch of the provincial campaign. Election day in Saskatchewan is on M...

Oct 23, 2020

Health Minister Patty Hajdu's remarks disappoint information commissioner

OTTAWA - The federal information ombudsman says she's disappointed by Health Minister Patty Hajdu's comments dismissing the need to bolster access to government records. Hajdu rebuffed a Conservative ...

Oct 23, 2020

Nunavut NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq takes two-month health leave

OTTAWA - Nunavut's lone MP says she's taking eight weeks away from work on advice from her doctor. Mumilaaq Qaqqaq says she's been dealing with unspecified health problems in the year since she was el...

Oct 23, 2020

Victim of Markham, Ont., homicide identified as Iranian-Canadian activist Mehdi Amin

TORONTO - An Iranian-Canadian human rights advocate found dead in his home north of Toronto this week was a kind, polite gentleman who never argued with anyone, friends of his said Friday as police as...

Oct 23, 2020