Category Archives: National
Ontario issues stay-at-home order, Alberta cracks down on COVID-19 rule-breakers
Residents of Ontario and Quebec were to wake up to more COVID-19 restrictions Thursday as officials plan new approaches to vaccine distribution and promise crackdowns on rule-breakers in several jurisdictions. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, meanwhile, ...
In Canada, U.S., vaccine ‘passports’ could be new point of cross-border contention
WASHINGTON — As if the COVID-19 pandemic hadn't produced enough ways to complicate life at the border between Canada and the United States, here comes another: whether or not to require proof of vaccination. Debate is heating up in the freedom-focused
Singh rejects more extreme NDP policy resolutions, like scrapping military
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is standing by several controversial proposals from rank-and-file party members while rejecting more extreme ones — including a call to abolish the military — ahead of this weekend's policy convention. Singh's tightrop...
Singh rejects more extreme NDP policy resolutions, like scrapping military
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is standing by several controversial proposals from rank-and-file party members while rejecting more extreme ones — including a call to abolish the military — ahead of this weekend's policy convention. Singh's tightrop...
Singh rejects more extreme NDP policy resolutions, like scrapping military
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is standing by several controversial proposals from rank-and-file party members while rejecting more extreme ones — including a call to abolish the military — ahead of this weekend's policy convention.Singh's tightrope...
Charged with ignoring COVID-19 health rules: Alberta church shut down, fenced off
EDMONTON — About 30 people sang hymns and a woman walked back and forth with a Bible in her hand as Alberta health officers on Wednesday closed down and fenced off a church charged with refusing to follow COVID-19 health
Climate change group pushes NDP, Green leaders to form election climate alliance
OTTAWA — An advocacy group alarmed by the pace of global warming is urging federal NDP and Green Party of Canada leaders to partner in the next general election in hopes of sending more climate-minded candidates to Ottawa. Organizers with 350
Parliamentary budget officer says basic income program could halve poverty rate
OTTAWA — The pressure on the federal Liberal government to introduce a universal basic income ratcheted up a notch Wednesday with a report from the parliamentary budget officer that suggests it could cut poverty rates in Canada by almost half
Vaccine panel confirms choice to delay doses up to four months in Canada
OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend timing of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months after the first, but says most Canadians will probably only wait half that
Ahead of budget, agency funds skills-training program to buffer against future shocks
OTTAWA — When COVID-19 forced the closure of department stores, Mary Junne Boyco and her co-workers lost their jobs, ending more than a decade of working in the service sector. The 35-year-old lost sleep as anxiety crept in about how
