Category Archives: National
Quebec health system unprepared to handle Omicron-fuelled long COVID cases
Montrealer Claudia Hébert says she started to feel extreme fatigue and to get fevers three weeks after returning from Senegal in March 2020, with only a few months left to a complete her Université de Montréal veterinary medicine program. Some symptom...
Scale up B.C. drug-checking programs to save lives: centre on substance use
VANCOUVER — Checking illicit drugs for deadly toxins is the best option to prevent fatal overdoses without a safer supply, but that service should be expanded to rural and remote communities in British Columbia, says the manager of a drug-checking
Group involved in Ottawa protest asks court to halt federal use of Emergencies Act
OTTAWA — A group involved in the anti-government protest against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa is asking a court to put the brakes on federal use of the Emergencies Act to clamp down on demonstrators. In submissions Friday to the Federal Court,
Travellers to Nunavut who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19 can isolate at home
IQALUIT, NUNAVUT — Travellers to Nunavut who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 or partially vaccinated will no longer have to isolate in one of the government's isolation hotels in Southern Canada. Nunavut Health Minister John Main says those travellers c...
Politicians condemn violence at Coastal GasLink construction site in northern B.C.
Politicians are denouncing what police have called a violent confrontation in separate attacks against officers and employees at a construction site for a natural gas pipeline being built across northern British Columbia. Federal Public Safety Ministe...
A list of anti-COVID restriction protests around the world
Protests against COVID-19 restrictions have taken place around the world since the beginning of the pandemic. Here is a look at some of the demonstrations over governments' handling of the pandemic as police began making arrests Friday in Ottawa of
Reporters take heat in Canada, U.S. for reaching out to donors who supported protests
WASHINGTON — Journalists in Canada and the United States, veterans of a daily grind that entails tracking down and chatting up newsmakers, politicians and ordinary citizens by whatever means necessary, are encountering a very different — and hostile — ...
Top doctor says Canada is past peak of Omicron-fuelled wave of COVID-19
The country’s top doctor says Canada is past the peak of the COVID-19 wave caused by the Omicron variant and is ready to move out of a crisis response. "We are hopeful we are approaching a period of reduced transmission, allowing
The latest on protests against COVID-19 measures in Ottawa and beyond
The latest developments on ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in Ottawa and various locations across Canada, on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. All times eastern: 10:00 p.m. Government House leader Mar...
Police arrest at least 100 in sweeping operation to dismantle Ottawa protest
OTTAWA — Police officers descended on anti-government protesters in Ottawa on Friday, arresting at least 100 people and towing more than 20 vehicles in a push to end a three-week occupation that has reverberated across Canada and around the world. Doze...
