Canada

COVID-19 silver lining: experts predict innovation in medicine, education, remote work

MONTREAL - Despite years of discussions between politicians and doctors, the Quebec government couldn't find a way to pay its general practitioners for phone and video consultations wit...

Mar 31, 2020

Canadians asked to wash mailboxes, keep dogs at bay, to ensure safe mail delivery

OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post employees is asking Canadians to disinfect their mail boxes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. And the post office itself is asking Canadians with dogs...

Mar 31, 2020

Hope floats: Alberta town ravaged by flood rolls out parade float for COVID-19

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - A parade float parked on a downtown street in High River, Alta., seems strangely out of place in a world dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. But longtime Mayor Craig...

Mar 31, 2020

B.C. court considers ways to deliver Meng decision in socially distant manner

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court is considering creative ways to deliver a decision in an extradition hearing for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou as a global pandemic restricts travel and ga...

Mar 30, 2020

Gatherings restricted, schools closed: What's being done to fight COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every province and territory. Medical officers of health and Canada's chief public health officer are encouraging people to wash their hands, giv...

Mar 30, 2020

Vancouver Convention Centre picked for off site COVID-19 treatment centre

VICTORIA - Vancouver's waterfront convention centre is being prepared as a health facility in British Columbia's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Monday. The centre...

Mar 30, 2020

Donated organs not being used as hospitals scale back transplants for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Transplant centres across the country have massively scaled back organ transplants as hospitals try to make sure they are able to accommodate COVID-19 cases. Hospitals are reserving ventilato...

Mar 30, 2020

Canada's spy service moves quietly ahead with data-crunching plans: documents

OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Canada's spy agency is moving ahead with plans to collect and use databases containing personal information about Canadians. The Canadian Security Intelligence S...

Mar 30, 2020

N.S. woman describes struggles of a beloved father on a ventilator with COVID-19

The daughter of a Nova Scotia man relying on a ventilator to breathe wants Canadians to know that COVID-19 can deny loved ones the ability to hold one another in their ti...

Mar 30, 2020

Two inmates, nine employees at Quebec prison test positive for COVID-19

OTTAWA - Two inmates have tested positive for COVID-19 at a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the first confirmed cases involving prisoners in a federal institution. The Correctional Service of ...

Mar 30, 2020