Tag Archives: health

OTTAWA - The country's top public servant is offering to testify about controversial redactions to some 5,000 pages of documents the government released on the WE Charity affair. Ian Shugart, clerk of...

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has rejected claims by 15 young people asking that Ottawa be compelled to develop a climate recovery plan based on science, but their lawyers say the ruling will be a...

TORONTO - Canadians dramatically altered their behaviour by permanently reducing their interactions with others even as they began moving around more during the pandemic, a new study of cellphone data...

OTTAWA - More than 10,000 Canadians have died due to COVID-19, a grim milestone reached by a pandemic that is far from over. Twenty-eight new deaths reported in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta p...

OTTAWA - Canada's prison ombudsman is calling for a moratorium on allowing medically assisted deaths inside federal correctional institutions, part of a sweeping annual report that also took a closer ...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 8:15 p.m. As of Oct. 26, federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says there were 362 active cases of COVID-10 in First ...

MONTREAL - The idea is simple, says Jennifer Brazeau, executive director of the Native Friendship Centre in Quebec's Lanaudiere region: provide "a culturally secure space" where Indigenous people can ...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:55 p.m. EDT on Oct. 27, 2020: There are 222,886 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 101,885 confirmed (including 6,172 deaths, 86,786 ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's top doctor is limiting the size of gatherings in private homes as COVID-19 infections rise, particularly in the province's Lower Mainland. Dr. Bonnie Henry says gathering...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests most Canadians don't want a federal election during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic - or even next year. The results suggest 47 per cent of respondents want the n...