Canada

Hurricane Teddy remains on track for Atlantic Canada, expected as tropical storm

HALIFAX - Hurricane Teddy remains on track to pass through wide areas of Atlantic Canada on Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rainfall. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says Teddy is...

Sep 19, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sept. 19

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 10:48 a.m. EDT on Sept. 19, 2020:There are 142,318 confirmed cases in Canada._ Quebec: 66,653 confirmed (including 5,792 deaths, 58,218 r...

Sep 19, 2020

Hurricane Teddy remains on track for Atlantic Canada, expected as tropical storm

HALIFAX - Hurricane Teddy remains on track to pass through wide areas of Atlantic Canada on Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing fierce winds and heavy rainfall. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says Teddy is...

Sep 19, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sept. 19

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 10:48 a.m. EDT on Sept. 19, 2020: There are 142,318 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 66,653 confirmed (including 5,792 deaths, 58,218...

Sep 19, 2020

COVID-19 task force worries Trump's rush to approve vaccine will spook Canadians

OTTAWA - Members of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine task force are casting worried eyes at the Trump administration's political push to get a vaccine approved before the U.S. presidential el...

Sep 19, 2020

Admitted to Canada under pilot program, refugee nurses ready for work as PSWs

OTTAWA - Halfway through their 14-day quarantine period, Diala Charab and Yehya Al-Ayoubi are excited to start working as health-care aides after arriving Sunday from Lebanon. Despite COVID-19 t...

Sep 19, 2020

Nearly 20 per cent of COVID-19 infections among health-care workers by late July

VANCOUVER - Health care workers in Canada made up about 20 per cent of COVID-19 infections as of late July, a figure that was higher than the global average. In a report released earlie...

Sep 19, 2020

Man charged in Toronto stabbing, police say; mosque calls for hate crime probe

TORONTO - An arrest has been made in the death of a man who was fatally stabbed outside a Toronto mosque, police said Friday as the religious group called for the murder to be investigated as a hate c...

Sep 18, 2020

Lake Babine Nation signs deal with Ottawa and British Columbia

VICTORIA - The British Columbia and federal governments have signed an agreement with the Lake Babine Nation that Chief Gordon Alec says will help lead to its prosperity. Alec says the agreement is an...

Sep 18, 2020

Federal pay-equity commissioner reappointed, but new national law still not in force

OTTAWA - Canada's first national pay-equity commissioner is having her term extended amid delays getting new pay-equity legislation into action. Karen Jensen was appointed a year ago to the Canadian H...

Sep 18, 2020