Canada

B.C. care home allowed group activities to continue after positive test: family

VANCOUVER - Parbs Bains had a "sinking feeling" when she heard a single staff member tested positive for COVID-19 at her grandmother's care home. On Nov. 20, Little Mountain Place sent an email to fam...

Jan 13, 2021

Meng's lawyers ask court to ease surveillance in bail agreement

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou have asked British Columbia's Supreme Court to ease her bail conditions as she fights extradition to the United States. Her husband, Liu Xia...

Jan 12, 2021

A list of federal MPs who've said they will not run again in the next election

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Navdeep Bains has announced he's stepping down from his role as innovation, science and industry minister and won't run again in the next election in the riding of Mississauga-Malt...

Jan 12, 2021

Garneau embraces new U.S. ties as Champagne joins Britain targeting Chinese abuses

OTTAWA - Canada's new foreign minister says he will work with the incoming Biden administration in Washington to find ways to help two Canadian men imprisoned by China.Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Ga...

Jan 12, 2021

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada on Jan. 12, 2021

OTTAWA - The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern):5:50 p.m.Alberta is announcing 652 new cases of COVID-19 and 38 additional deaths due to the virus.It's the highest numb...

Jan 12, 2021

Ontario issues stay-at-home order as COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm hospitals

OTTAWA - Canada's biggest province declared a new state of emergency Tuesday and is invoking a stay-at-home order as COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm Ontario hospitals.The dire news came as Prime Minis...

Jan 12, 2021

Detective says metal rod found in garbage at Edmonton hotel where Cindy Gladue died

EDMONTON - A detective has told a jury that Edmonton police found a metal rod in the garbage collected at the city hotel where Cindy Gladue's body was found in June 2011. Det. Nancy Ho has testified a...

Jan 12, 2021

Nunavut officials urge residents to get COVID vaccine, about 400 shots given so far

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut officials are urging residents to get immunized against COVID-19 as the vaccine starts to roll out across the territory. Chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson, ...

Jan 12, 2021

Regulator investigating Canadian nurses who spoke at anti-lockdown rally in D.C.

TORONTO - Two Canadian nurses who spoke at an anti-lockdown rally in Washington, D.C., on the day of the deadly storming of the Capitol are under investigation by their regulatory body. One of them, w...

Jan 12, 2021

Cabinet shuffle and Ontario's possible new COVID measures: In The News for Jan. 12

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 12 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

Jan 12, 2021