Canada

Ottawa welcomes Biden as ally in climate fight

OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers are welcoming Joe Biden's election as the next U.S. president as an opportunity to advance the fight against climate change. Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson ...

Nov 08, 2020

COVID-19's fall resurgence reaches new daily case highs in Quebec, Ontario

The fall resurgence of COVID-19 is again smashing daily infection records in Quebec and Ontario while devastating outbreaks at two Winnipeg long-term care homes has sparked an investigation. Quebec is...

Nov 08, 2020

Ottawa says federal support for airline industry contingent on refunding customers

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will make any new support for Canada's airline industry during the COVID-19 pandemic contingent on refunds for passengers whose flights were cancelled.Transport...

Nov 08, 2020

Fabled host of quiz show "Jeopardy!" Alex Trebek dies at age 80 after cancer battle

Alex Trebek, the Canadian-born "Jeopardy!" host who brought his warm demeanour and sharp wit to the quiz show and became a daily presence in living rooms around the world for more than three decades, ...

Nov 08, 2020

Minassian's former classmates hope for answers at upcoming Toronto van attack trial

TORONTO - Evan Mead still wracks his mind trying to understand what his former classmate was thinking when he drove a van down a Toronto sidewalk mowing down pedestrians. Mead, 28, spent three years i...

Nov 08, 2020

'It only takes one:' COVID-19 cases continue to surge among First Nations in Manitoba

WINNIPEG - David Monias has barely slept in weeks. The Pimicikamak Cree Nation chief says his phone rings off the hook day and night from people fearful the COVID-19 pandemic is silently spreading int...

Nov 08, 2020

Amidst a tough and sad year, a Halifax choir creates a concert of communal lament

HALIFAX - In a year of pandemic, mass murder and military tragedies, a choir on Canada's East Coast has created a concert that gives singers, a poet and their online audience an outlet for communal la...

Nov 08, 2020

Veterans connect with students online in lead-up to pandemic-era Remembrance Day

Gulf War veteran Bob Crane has been busy in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day, adjusting his classroom presentations to an array of online platforms. Crane, a retired Army major who volunteers a...

Nov 08, 2020

Federal guidance for border agency surveillance and sources drafted but never issued

OTTAWA - A newly released memo shows Canada's border agency signed off on rules to guide its most intrusive intelligence operations months ago, but the federal government has yet to issue the minister...

Nov 08, 2020

COVID-19 latest bump in Canada's long road to Second World War remembrance

OTTAWA - Annie McNamara was in a hostel in Piccadilly Circus when the news came that Nazi Germany had been defeated. She vividly remembers that excitement that swept through the streets of London on M...

Nov 08, 2020