Category Archives: Canada
Second World War female aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill gets Heritage Minute
Pioneering female aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill is the focus of a new Heritage Minute.Historica Canada released a tribute to MacGill's influential role in the Second World War on Thursday to mar...
Oct 01, 2020
Airline unions call on Ottawa for $7 billion in loans for ailing industry
Labour leaders are calling on Ottawa to provide immediate financial aid and rapid viral testing to an airline industry devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The heads of two pilots' unions and Unifor a...
Oct 01, 2020
Second Quebec health care worker fired after Indigenous woman's hospital death
MONTREAL - A second health-care worker has been fired in connection with the treatment of an Indigenous woman who was subjected to degrading remarks in a hospital northeast of Montreal before she died...
Oct 01, 2020
Infrastructure bank to invest $10 billion in priority areas for pandemic recovery
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is promising to finally spend $10 billion that has sat in the accounts of its infrastructure financing agency for years, hoping to create thousands of post-pandemic job...
Oct 01, 2020
Desmond inquiry: No word on when fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia will resume
HALIFAX - Nearly seven months after the COVID-19 pandemic halted an inquiry into why a former soldier killed three family members and himself in Nova Scotia, there is still no indication of when it wi...
Oct 01, 2020
Promise of hybrid sittings clears way for Senate to deal with worker aid bill
OTTAWA - The government's representative in the Senate is promising to introduce a motion Friday to hold hybrid sittings of the upper house during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Marc Gold's promise clear...
Oct 01, 2020
Greens say fundraising error is less than $10K but Murray camp is not so sure
OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada says the amount of money accidentally deposited with the party rather than Glen Murray's leadership campaign adds up to less than $10,000.Murray says he is not yet c...
Oct 01, 2020
Quebec cities face new COVID-19 restrictions as Ontario contends with testing backlog
Quebec reported 16 more deaths Thursday as it began the first day of new restrictions meant to flatten a spike in COVID-19 infections, while Ontario was dealing with a backlog of more than 82,000 test...
Oct 01, 2020
RCMP officers describe chaotic scene, concern for safety after Fredericton shootings
FREDERICTON - Members of an RCMP team who responded to a mass killing in Fredericton two years ago have described a chaotic scene where they thought their lives could be in danger.Three officers testi...
Oct 01, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 11:15 a.m. As Quebec's largest cities begin the first day of new restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, the provi...
Oct 01, 2020