Canada

People's Party leader and former MP Maxime Bernier travelled to Florida last fall

OTTAWA - The one-time Conservative cabinet minister and MP who broke ranks to form his own political party is among the Canadians who've headed south in recent months. Maxime Bernier, who leads the li...

Jan 05, 2021

Navy gets new commander after admiral named defence chief

OTTAWA - Rear Admiral Craig Baines is being tapped as the Royal Canadian Navy's new commander.Outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance announced the appointment Tuesday, with Baines set...

Jan 05, 2021

Formal procession for Calgary police officer killed in the line of duty

CALGARY - Civilians and first responders lined a major Calgary thoroughfare to watch as police vehicles escorted the remains of a fallen comrade across the city in a formal procession. Calgary police ...

Jan 05, 2021

B.C. mink farmer decides to destroy 1,000 animals after positive COVID-19 tests

VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief veterinarian says a mink farmer decided to euthanize the remaining 1,000 animals on his Fraser Valley operation after some of the mink tested positive for COVID-19....

Jan 05, 2021

Nunavut to start vaccinating elders Wednesday; community clinics to begin next week

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says first doses of a vaccine against COVID-19 are to be given Wednesday to residents at Iqaluit's elders home. Elders and front-line health ca...

Jan 05, 2021

Canada probing whether delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses could help more people

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she has asked the national vaccine advisory panel to investigate if there is merit to delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a bid to get more...

Jan 05, 2021

Info watchdog raps Privy Council Office for terminating access requests from public

OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from the public without good cause. In a series of decisions made public Tue...

Jan 05, 2021

Human rights commission to investigate death of seven-year-old Quebec girl

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement th...

Jan 05, 2021

Trudeau says he too is frustrated by holiday travellers, pace of vaccine rollout

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shares the frustrations of Canadians with those who've chosen to travel abroad over the holiday season. Trudeau says changes are coming to a new federal ...

Jan 05, 2021

Quebec City long-term care employee in his 50s dies from COVID-19

MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec City say a worker at one of the first long-term care homes in the province to receive COVID-19 vaccines has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus...

Jan 05, 2021