Category Archives: Canada

Coronavirus containment window shrinking as virus spreads to more countries
OTTAWA - Canada's border measures to guard the country against incoming cases of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, will likely become less effective as the virus spreads, the country's chief me...
Feb 26, 2020

NDP table legislation to create universal pharmacare program, seek Liberal backing
OTTAWA - The NDP have tabled a new bill that calls for a universal pharmacare plan in Canada. The party, which has been promising the legislation for some time, says its proposal is based on the ...
Feb 26, 2020

Doctor details how Lionel Desmond won approval to get a gun despite concerns
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A New Brunswick doctor who uses cannabis to treat veterans with PTSD says Lionel Desmond wasn't suicidal and showed no sign he was a threat to others in Februar...
Feb 26, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern): ___ 10:45 a.m. ET Ontario Provincial Police say fires at a second protest...
Feb 26, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern): 7:40 p.m. The West Coast Express commuter rail service in Metro Vancouver...
Feb 26, 2020

StatCan says 3.2 million living in poverty, including 566,000 children
OTTAWA - Canada's poverty rate has fallen to a historic low in one of the sharpest three-year declines on record, the national statistics office says, but millions of Canadians still live below t...
Feb 26, 2020

Alberta Appeal Court sides with province on federal carbon tax
EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal gave opponents of the federal carbon tax their first win on Monday when it ruled that the levy is unconstitutional. In a 4-1 decision, the Appeal ...
Feb 26, 2020

Indigenous leaders condemn use of force by police to clear blockade in Ontario
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY, Ont. - A police operation that saw officers descend on a rail blockade on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in central Ontario and arrest several protesters Monday seemed t...
Feb 26, 2020

Toronto blockade cleared and a slow-blooming spring; In The News for Feb. 26
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 Feb. 26 ... What...
Feb 26, 2020

Arts dean at Regina university sorry poet vilified over lecture controversy
REGINA - Emails show the University of Regina's dean of arts told George Elliott Clarke that he was sorry the acclaimed poet had been vilified over his relationship with the killer of an Ind...
Feb 26, 2020