Canada

Feds reveal details of $35M fund to help make farms safer in COVID-19 pandemic

OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says some Canadian farmers can now apply for emergency funding to protect their workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will subsidize farms...

Oct 05, 2020

SARS was 'dress rehearsal for COVID-19' but Canada failed health-care workers: report

Canada put health-care workers at risk of contracting COVID-19 and taking it home to their families because it failed to learn lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, a new report says...

Oct 05, 2020

Magnitsky sanctions demanded against Iranians in January shootdown of airliner

OTTAWA - Families and loved ones of those killed in the shootdown of a passenger jet over Tehran are urging Canada to impose so-called Magnitsky sanctions that would target those directly responsible....

Oct 05, 2020

RCMP tech analyst testifies about material found on N.B. shooting suspect's computer

FREDERICTON - A senior forensic analyst with the RCMP has begun testifying at the first-degree murder trial of Matthew Raymond in Fredericton. Raymond, 50, is accused in the August 2018 shooting...

Oct 05, 2020

After dairy and metals, U.S. trade hawks setting sights on foreign berries, produce

WASHINGTON, Wash. - After waging war on Canadian dairy, steel and aluminum, Donald Trump's White House is setting its sights on foreign berry farmers and vegetable growers. U.S. Trade Representa...

Oct 05, 2020

Number of new COVID-19 cases in Quebec hits highest level since pandemic began

MONTREAL - Health officials in Quebec are reporting 1,191 new COVID-19 cases today, the highest single-day total since the beginning of the pandemic. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in...

Oct 05, 2020

Greens slam other parties for refusing to show 'leader's courtesy' to Annamie Paul

OTTAWA - Former Green leader Elizabeth May slammed the New Democrats this morning for refusing stand down their candidate in a coming byelection so the first Black woman elected to lead a federal part...

Oct 05, 2020

New Brunswick First Nations filing lawsuit to seek Aboriginal title

FREDERICTON - Six First Nations in New Brunswick announced today they will be filing a lawsuit seeking title to their traditional lands in New Brunswick, which include much of the western half of the ...

Oct 05, 2020

Five-year-old Canadian orphan in Syrian camp set free, will come to Canada

OTTAWA - A five-year-old Canadian girl stuck inside Syria after her family was killed in an airstrike is being allowed to leave the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne s...

Oct 05, 2020

U of A researcher shares Nobel prize for hepatitis C virus discovery

STOCKHOLM - British scientist Michael Houghton, who works at the University of Alberta, and Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Mon...

Oct 05, 2020