Canada

National standards for coronavirus protection to be reviewed, health agency says

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it will review its protocols for health-care workers after nurses' unions denounced the national guidelines set out for dealing with the...

Feb 17, 2020

Federal government asks court for four more months to amend assisted dying law

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking for more time to amend the assisted-dying law, acknowledging that it can't meet a court-imposed deadline to drop a provision that allows only those who a...

Feb 17, 2020

NewsAlert: N.L. Premier Dwight Ball to step down

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball says he is stepping down after more than four years leading the province. In a surprise announcement made by v...

Feb 17, 2020

Ottawa eases speed restrictions imposed after Saskatchewan derailment

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau is easing speed restrictions placed on certain trains following a derailment in Saskatchewan earlier this month that spilled 1.2 million litres of crude oil an...

Feb 17, 2020

Quebec, Cree leaders sign deal as other Indigenous groups protest across Canada

MONTREAL - Quebec and Cree leaders are announcing the first steps of a wide-ranging 30-year plan to further develop the province's northern territory together. Premier Francois Legault told ...

Feb 17, 2020

Wet'suwet'en and B.C. government have been talking Aboriginal title for a year

VANCOUVER - As cabinet ministers broker urgent meetings over rail blockades in support of hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia, a series of negotiations over the Wet'suwet'en Nation's l...

Feb 17, 2020

Home-school official tells trial Jewish education rigorous but only for boys

MONTREAL - The head of a Jewish home-schooling association is telling a Montreal courtroom that the rigorous Talmudic education offered by the Hasidic community prepares a child for any possible caree...

Feb 17, 2020

New Brunswick premier admits 'gaps' in scrapped plan for overnight ER closures

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs says criticism of his government's decision to close emergency rooms overnight in six community hospitals exposed serious gaps in the plan an...

Feb 17, 2020

Quebecois couple on quarantined cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus

MONTREAL - An elderly Quebecois couple from Gatineau, Que., aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, their daughter said on Sat...

Feb 17, 2020

Study finds 'stunning' lack of research into women's heart health

OTTAWA - A new review of the existing research into women's cardiovascular disease has uncovered what the authors call a "stunning" lack of information about how women are affected. The review wa...

Feb 17, 2020