Canada

Airlines slam 'confusion' new COVID-19 testing rules create for carriers, passengers

OTTAWA - Airlines say a slew of questions remain about the federal government's decision to require passengers returning to Canada to show negative results on COVID-19 tests taken abroad. Transport Mi...

Greg Fry Jan 04, 2021

As COVID-19 cases surge, public health expert calls for stricter measures

Public health experts are raising alarm over surges in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across several provinces. Ontario and Quebec respectively are reporting 3,270 and 2,546 new cases of COVID-19...

Jan 04, 2021

'Find' votes, Trump urges Georgia as various election dramas near Capitol Hill climax

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Voters in Georgia will head to the polls Tuesday to determine who holds the balance of power on Capitol Hill for the next two years. But they've already been upstaged by President D...

Jan 04, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic an opportunity to reform Quebec's devastated long-term care homes

MONTREAL - The COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec was marked by images from long-term care homes: isolated seniors peering out from windows, bodies in zippered bags on stretchers exiting imposing brick build...

Jan 04, 2021

Helicopter crash victims identified as parents, two children in family of seven

DEBOLT, Alta. - Four people who died in a helicopter crash on New Year's Day were identified by loved ones Sunday as members of a strong and loving farm family from a tight-knit community in northern ...

Jan 03, 2021

Feds weigh cutting COVID-19 sickness benefit for Canadians who have travelled

OTTAWA - The federal government is weighing whether to bar people who have travelled overseas from a new benefit for those who have to quarantine due to COVID-19. The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit,...

Jan 03, 2021

Former residential school in Lower Post slated for demolition: premier

LOWER POST, B.C. - A building where locals pick up their mail, look for work and seek government help is a place of pain and fear for those who remember it as a residential school. Some of the 175 or ...

Jan 03, 2021

'Sky is the limit:' Pilot project using drones to send medical supplies, COVID tests

MORLEY, Alta. - The windswept foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains are the setting for a pilot project using drones to deliver medical supplies and personal protective equipment to remote communitie...

Jan 02, 2021

NDP strip Niki Ashton of critic roles after recent trip to Greece

A prominent member of the federal New Democrats has lost her cabinet critic positions after travelling to Greece in spite of widespread travel restrictions meant to curb the spread of COVID-19. The pa...

Jan 01, 2021

First Canadian babies of 2021 born as the clock struck midnight

MONTREAL - A baby born in a Montreal hospital may have been the first Canadian newborn of 2021. The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital said Friday that a boy named Arthur was born precisely at midnight. Th...

Jan 01, 2021