Canada

Mixed messaging on COVID-19 pandemic is leading to distrust in Ontario, experts say

TORONTO - Balancing the fight against COVID-19 with efforts to jump-start the economy in Ontario has highlighted communications problems that have sown confusion and could erode trust in public health...

Oct 06, 2020

'Why did it happen?' Sons of woman killed in 1997 crash want answers from Scott Moe

The sound of his mother's dying breath still haunts him. It was a May morning in 1997. Steve Balog was 18 and sitting beside his mother as she drove down a rural Saskatchewan highway when their ...

Oct 06, 2020

Man who was subject of wife's appeal in Nova Scotia assisted death case dies

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man whose wife tried to stop his medically assisted death in court has died in hospital. According to his obituary posted on a funeral home website, 83-year-old Jack Eugene Sor...

Oct 06, 2020

Mayor Kennedy Stewart proposes $30-million recommendation to help Vancouver homeless

VANCOUVER - Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants councillors to support a multimillion-dollar proposal to help those who are homeless in Vancouver during the pandemic. Stewart has released a recommendation to ...

Oct 06, 2020

Scott Moe apologizes on campaign trail to family of woman killed in his 1997 crash

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has publicly apologized to the family of a woman killed in a 1997 highway crash he was involved in. The apology came during a campaign stop in Saskatoon...

Oct 06, 2020

Quebec Premier Francois Legault to formally apologize to Joyce Echaquan's family

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he will present an official apology today to the family of an Indigenous woman who filmed staff insulting her as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montreal ...

Oct 06, 2020

Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair

OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must provi...

Oct 06, 2020

Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for fifth straight day

OTTAWA - Canada's two most populous provinces remain COVID-19 hot spots today, with Quebec setting a record for new daily case counts. Cases are surging in several parts of the country but Quebec and ...

Oct 06, 2020

Man charged in 2018 Fredericton murders listed people he believed to be demons

FREDERICTON - The trial of the man accused of four murders in Fredericton two years ago has been told Matthew Raymond spent much of the year before the shootings trying to identify demons. Raymond is ...

Oct 06, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 6

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Oct. 6, 2020: There are 168,961 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 79,650 confirmed (including 5,884 deaths, 66,180 resol...

Oct 06, 2020