Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor is ordering nightclubs and banquet halls to close to control the spread of COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she's ordering the immedia...

MONTREAL - A group of Quebec parents has lost the first round of a legal fight to force the province's Education Department to provide an online learning option for all families who want it. Quebec Su...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she won't get ahead of an independent review of the early-warning unit in her agency that's meant to flag potential pandemics. Dr. Theresa ...

OTTAWA - Canadians appear to still have solid faith in doctors and scientists nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. A new survey done for Proof Strategies over the Labour Day weekend suggests ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian legal team for an imprisoned Iranian human-rights lawyer is calling for federal sanctions and United Nations intervention as she wages a life-threatening hunger strike entering i...

FREDERICTON - Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers says the province needs a growth agenda, not what he says are austerity and cuts promoted by Premier Blaine Higgs. Vickers told a business audience ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending its commercial rent-relief program one last time. The Liberals say the program that aims to help small businesses with their rent or lease c...

OTTAWA - More than 35,000 people are eligible to cast votes in next month's Green party leadership race. That would absolutely smash the turnout in the last Green leadership race 14 years ago, wh...

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge has apologized five years after she refused to allow a Muslim woman to appear in court wearing a hijab. A letter of apology from Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo was re...

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said ...