Category Archives: National
Alberta launches COVID vaccine lottery with million-dollar prizes to encourage uptake
EDMONTON — Alberta is launching a multimillion-dollar lottery in a bid to encourage more residents to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Premier Jason Kenney unveiled some details of the "Open for Summer Vaccine Lottery" in a video posted to his Twitter account....
Quebec, Ottawa name facilitator to help communities with residential school searches
MONTREAL — The Quebec and federal governments unveiled plans on Saturday a central place for the province's Indigenous communities to go for support over former residential schools, easing concerns that the process would be mired in red tape. Indigeno...
How Jagmeet Singh channelled outrage for speech on Islamophobia and London attack
OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh was pacing. The New Democrat leader, who typically starts his day with music or meditation followed by a virtual meeting with his team, was poised to address the House of Commons about terror and tragedy in less
Canada paid a premium to get doses from Pfizer earlier than planned
OTTAWA — Canada paid a premium to get more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivered last December, weeks earlier than planned. The detail is contained in heavily redacted contracts released to the House of Commons health committee l...
Calls grow for Ottawa to review settlement decisions for residential school survivors
Lawyer Teri Lynn Bougie still cries when she talks about the final message on her answering machine years ago from a residential school survivor, back when she was battling with federal government lawyers over his compensation. "We went round and round...
Canadian drug companies want new pricing regs delayed again until after pandemic
OTTAWA — Almost three dozen Canadian pharmaceutical companies made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month to delay the new drug pricing regulations for a third time. The companies, including all four of the drugmakers behind the CO...
Canadian drug companies want new pricing regs delayed again until after pandemic
OTTAWA — Almost three dozen Canadian pharmaceutical companies made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month to delay the new drug pricing regulations for a third time. The companies, including all four of the drugmakers behind the CO...
China up for discussion at G7 Leaders’ Summit, but also back home in Canada
CARBIS BAY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND — The thorny issue of how to handle increasing competition and aggression from China came up as leaders of the world's wealthiest countries gathered Saturday in an English seaside resort, although it remains to be seen
Two sides of the same coin: Ex-foster kids identify with residential school survivors
VANCOUVER — As stories of the horrors of residential schools circulate after the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced it had located what are believed to be the remains of 215 children, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Saturday, June 12, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 04:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, June 12, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 452,000 new vaccinations administered for a total of 28,167,799 doses given. Nationwide, 4,000,799 people or 11...
