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Canada's PM Trudeau pledges to hold Iran to account for shootdown of Flight 752
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will continue to hold Iran to account after its military shot down a passenger jet in January 2020. "First and foremost, we will continue to be there...
Mar 19, 2021
Liberals eye more cash for rapid-housing program as demand outstrips available funds
OTTAWA - The federal government is looking for more money to give to housing providers to quickly build, or buy existing structures for affordable housing units, Social Development Minister Ahmed Huss...
Mar 19, 2021
Variants threatening our progress in containing spread of COVID-19 with vaccines: Tam
Canada's top doctor says there's concern that an increase in more transmissible variants of the COVID-19 virus may be threatening the country's progress in containing the spread of infections. And whi...
Mar 19, 2021
Biden picks former senator who flew in space to lead NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - President Joe Biden has chosen a former senator from Florida who flew on the space shuttle right before the Challenger accident to lead NASA. Biden on Friday announced his inten...
Mar 19, 2021
Doctors say getting COVID-19 poses much bigger risk of blood clots
OTTAWA - The national advocacy group for patients with blood-clot disorders says there is a greater risk of getting blood clots from COVID-19 than there is from the vaccine. Thrombosis Canada issued a...
Mar 19, 2021
Advocates call on Canadians to examine treatment of Asian Canadians
Amy Go says she was saddened by the shootings in Atlanta that left six Asian American women dead, but as an Asian Canadian woman, she wasn't surprised.Go, the president of the Chinese Canadian Nationa...
Mar 19, 2021
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Friday, March 19, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Friday, March 19, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 155,623 new vaccinations administered for a total of 3,565,023 d...
Mar 19, 2021
No link between colonialism and vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous people: expert
OTTAWA - There is no evidence that Canada's history of colonialism has made Indigenous people any more hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19 than the general population, says an Indigenous studi...
Mar 19, 2021
O'Toole pledges Conservatives would restore one million jobs within a year if elected
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole unveiled elements of his election pitch to Canadians Friday, seeking to ease his party's jitters that they're without an offering solid enough to woo voters a...
Mar 19, 2021
Trudeau denounces 'lack of transparency' as Spavor tried in China on spy charges
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced China's "lack of transparency" Friday following the brief trial of Michael Spavor, one of two Canadians detained by Beijing for more than two years. An...
Mar 19, 2021
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...