Category Archives: National
Plane carrying doses of COVID-19 vaccines for kids touches down in Canada
HAMILTON — The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for children landed in Canada on Sunday, clearing the way for provinces and territories to gear up in earnest for the next phase of the national mass immunization campaign. A UPS plane
Tory vaccination status in spotlight after MP tests positive on eve of new Parliament
OTTAWA — Concern over the vaccination status of Conservative MPs was front and centre on the eve of a new session of Parliament after one of them tested positive for COVID-19. Quebec MP Richard Lehoux's diagnosis added urgency to the push
Top Ukrainian official says more support needed as Russia masses troops near border
HALIFAX — A senior Ukrainian government official is urging Canada to bolster its support for the eastern European country as it faces a renewed threat from Russian forces along its border. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and ...
Belarus pro-democracy advocate praises Canada’s anti-authoritarian stand
OTTAWA — From the safe confines of Washington, D.C. and his comfortable World Bank job, Valery Kavaleuski was powerless to resist the riptide of democratic reform washing over his homeland of Belarus last summer. Kavaleuski went back to the capital cit...
Anti-hate groups fear wording problems may delay a new law tackling vitriol online
OTTAWA — A coalition of advocacy groups is urging the federal government to stick with its promise to take immediate action on online hate speech and to include steps to tackle the issue in Tuesday’s throne speech. The coalition members say
Decades worth of festering moose jawbones have much to say about N.L. ecology
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Fifty years of flesh-specked, festering jawbones pried out of moose by hunters and dropped in bins all over Newfoundland and Labrador have led to what biologist Don Keefe says is among the richest wildlife data sets
Conservative MP Richard Lehoux tests positive for COVID-19, party says
OTTAWA — The Conservative party says a Quebec member of Parliament has tested positive for COVID-19. Conservative Whip Blake Richards says Richard Lehoux, who represents Beauce in the House of Commons, is experiencing only mild symptoms. He says Lehou...
Ontario Senator Josée Forest-Niesing dies at 56 after battle with COVID-19
OTTAWA — Josée Forest-Niesing, a lawyer and Ontario senator, has died shortly after being hospitalized with COVID-19. She was 56. Forest-Niesing's office said earlier in the week that the Sudbury, Ont., senator returned home last Saturday after being a...
‘I know that many of you are angry with me’: Kenney speaks to UCP tensions during AGM
CALGARY — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is acknowledging tensions within his United Conservative party, while the UCP president is pleading with members to remain united under the camp's banner. Both remarks came moments apart at the party's annual gene...
US Indo Pacific Command chief says collaboration key to keeping region free and open
HALIFAX — The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is calling for greater collaboration between allies and partners to strive for a free and open Indo-Pacific as increasingly bold military actions from neighbouring countries stoke tensions in the regi...