Category Archives: Canada

Online meeting: Indigenous health managers to discuss response to COVID-19
Hundreds of Indigenous health managers from across Canada are to meet online Wednesday to discuss how to prepare for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their communities. The Assembly of Firs...
Mar 24, 2020

Quebec prosecutor's office clears provincial police chief after probe
Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions says there will be no charges against the head of the provincial police force. But Chief Martin Prud'homme will have to wait before he's permitted ...
Mar 24, 2020

Conservative leadership candidates jointly call for delayed vote
OTTAWA - Three contenders vying to become the next federal Conservative leader have banded together to call for the race to be delayed and for fees to be cut in half due to the pressures of the&n...
Mar 24, 2020

Canadian troops in Ukraine face uncertainty due to COVID-19 crisis
OTTAWA - The COVID-19 crisis has left military commanders facing a tough decision over what to do with 200 Canadian soldiers in Ukraine. Canada has had troops in the eastern European country since the...
Mar 24, 2020

Parks Canada suspends visitor vehicle access
GATINEAU - Parks Canada is implementing additional measures to support the federal government's efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19.Last week (March 19), Parks Canada suspended visitor services an...
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Saskatchewan health officials preparing for thousands to die: document
REGINA - The spread of COVID-19 could exceed the Saskatchewan Health Authority's capacity for acute services and amount to a death toll in the thousands, says a document....
Mar 24, 2020

Community spread of COVID-19 within Canada now rising
OTTAWA - Canada's chief medical health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says overall in Canada, an equal number of Canadians who have tested positive for COVID-19 contracted the virus from travel and from tran...
Mar 24, 2020

Parks Canada to close national parks, historic sites to vehicle traffic
Parks Canada is restricting vehicles in national parks and national historic sites after people flocked to the popular areas on the weekend.The federal agency said it's still noticing lots of visitors...
Mar 24, 2020
No immediate plans to use cell phone tracking in COVID-19 fight: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says the federal government has no immediate plans to use cellphone data to track people's movements during the COVID-19 crisis.But the prime minister adds that all options are...
Mar 24, 2020

No immediate plans to use cell phone tracking in COVID-19 fight: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says the federal government has no immediate plans to use cellphone data to track people's movements during the COVID-19 crisis. But the prime minister adds that all ...
Mar 24, 2020