Category Archives: Canada

High vaccine use urged by Tam, Njoo to beat COVID-19, restore pre-pandemic life
OTTAWA - Canada's top public health officers say widespread vaccination of Canadians is the only way to corral COVID-19 and allow life to return to a semblance of its pre-pandemic state. Dr....
Sep 01, 2020

NDP says documents prove youth minister played key role in WE controversy
OTTAWA - Federal New Democrats are turning their aim on Youth Minister Bardish Chagger, suggesting she was the key driver in the Liberal government's decision to have WE Charity run a multimillion-dol...
Sep 01, 2020

Memorial to N.S. mass shooting victims to be removed, partly to deter gawkers
HALIFAX - Four months after a lone gunman killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia, the residents of the tiny village where the shooting started have decided to dismantle a large...
Sep 01, 2020

Positive COVID-19 tests at 2 Calgary- area schools derail start of year for some
Positive COVID-19 tests at two Calgary-area schools have derailed the start of the year for some, while in northern Alberta an entire school division has chosen to delay return to classes. Meadow...
Sep 01, 2020

Ottawa firm hired to review workplace complaints at Rideau Hall
OTTAWA - An Ottawa-based consulting firm with a history of reviewing allegations of workplace harassment on Parliament Hill is being tasked to do so again at Rideau Hall. The Privy Council Office says...
Sep 01, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sept. 1
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1, 2020: There are 128,948 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 62,492 confirmed (including 5,760 deaths, 55,353 reso...
Sep 01, 2020

Use of predictive policing tools in Canada highlight need for federal action, report says
Police forces across Canada have already begun using technology to predict who may become involved in illegal activity or where crimes might take place, an expert group warned Tuesday as it called on ...
Sep 01, 2020

Residential school history and 'Transplant' success: In The News for Sept. 1
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 Sept. 1 ... What we a...
Sep 01, 2020

Sites to be commemorated: Residential schools recognized as 'historic event'
They blighted Indigenous lives for more than a century. Now their creation is being formally recognized as one of the events that helped shape today's Canada The federal government has ...
Sep 01, 2020

Patient wants B.C. to protect legal rights of mentally ill like most provinces
VANCOUVER - A week after giving birth to her daughter, Shareen Nimmo was forced to enter a psychiatric facility without being informed of her rights or having access to independent legal advice. ...
Sep 01, 2020