Canada

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...

Tanner King Oct 01, 2020

16 new COVID-19 deaths in Quebec as province's largest cities enter partial lockdown

Quebec is reporting 16 new deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus as its two biggest cities enter a partial lockdown. Health officials said today two deaths occurred in the past 24 hours, 12 occur...

Oct 01, 2020

Military base housing Canadian troops attacked as U.S.-Iraq tensions escalate

OTTAWA - Canadian troops involved in the six-year-old war against ISIL risk being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iraq. The dispute between Washington and Baghdad revo...

Oct 01, 2020