Canada

Health Canada approves Spartan Bioscience's previously recalled rapid COVID-19 test

TORONTO - The federal government has approved an Ottawa company's made-in-Canada rapid COVID-19 test, Health Canada confirmed Saturday as the nation's top doctor warned the virus's impact on the healt...

Jan 24, 2021

'It wasn't called COVID at the time:' One year since Canada's first COVID-19 case

TORONTO - The patient, when he came into the hospital ER with what seemed to be mild pneumonia, wasn't that sick and might otherwise have been sent home. Except the man had just returned from China, w...

Jan 24, 2021

'Deeply disturbing:' Nunavut internet still slower, more costly than rest of country

IQALUIT, Nunavut - In Nunavut, it's not unusual for the internet to cut out, slow down or stop working altogether. Unlike most jurisdictions in Canada, there is no option for unlimited internet. Inste...

Jan 24, 2021

Taxpayers' watchdog sees complaints spike, raising worries about pandemic tax season

OTTAWA - Canada's taxpayers' ombudsperson says his office has seen a steep spike in complaints compared to one year ago, delivering an early warning about how complicated returns should be handled thi...

Jan 24, 2021

Drug users at greater risk of dying as services scale back in second wave of COVID-19

OTTAWA - Under fluorescent lights, Wendy Muckle surveys the supervised consumption site that sits in quiet contrast to Ottawa's peppy ByWard Market nearby. Users filter into the brick building - dubbe...

Jan 24, 2021

'We're still in it': Wet'suwet'en push forward on rights recognition

Tensions had reached a boiling point over a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia when a Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief said he made a phone call that changed everything. Na'moks, who also ...

Jan 24, 2021

Taxi companies lose court bid to quash Uber, Lyft licences in British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Several taxi companies have lost a court bid to run Uber and Lyft off the road in British Columbia.Nine Metro Vancouver cab companies filed a petition asking the B.C. Supreme Court to quas...

Jan 23, 2021

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole defends decision to back, then oust, Sloan

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he was once willing to give his former leadership rival Derek Sloan the benefit of the doubt, but no longer. And he dismissed the idea that kicking Sloan...

Jan 23, 2021

Non-essential travel ban would violate Constitution but courts might allow it: expert

MONTREAL - Fear that Quebecers will catch a new variant of COVID-19 on vacation is what's driving demands by the Quebec premier for Ottawa to ban non-essential flights to the country. Premier Francois...

Greg Fry Jan 23, 2021

Senator urges study of vexing barriers to using secret information in court cases

OTTAWA - A Senate committee should examine the hurdles that make it difficult to use secret intelligence in Canada's courts, says the government representative in the upper chamber. Sen. Marc Gold say...

Jan 23, 2021