Category Archives: National
British Columbia reports 1,428 new COVID-19 cases, eight more deaths in three days
VICTORIA — Public health officials in British Columbia are reporting 1,428 new COVID-19 cases over the past three days, for a total of 77,263 since the pandemic began in the province. There have also been eight more deaths, bringing the number
Commons committee censures firearms association over inflammatory comments
OTTAWA — The National Firearms Association has been censured by a House of Commons committee for inflammatory comments about the Trudeau government's recent gun control legislation. The national security and public safety committee unanimously passed a...
Alberta cabinet minister reacts to government silence on Edmonton torch parade
EDMONTON — Alberta’s multiculturalism minister has pushed back against criticism of government silence following a weekend COVID-19 protest that included marchers with torches. “Right now, I’m actually focused on making sure that junior hockey gets bac...
Variant in schools means it’s time for all students in B.C. to wear masks: union
SURREY, B.C. — The head of the teachers' union in British Columbia is urging public health officials to expand guidelines on masks to include elementary students after seven schools reported cases involving a COVID-19 variant of concern. Teri Mooring o...
Canada Post worksite hit by major virus outbreak excluded from provincial inspections
TORONTO — Ontario labour inspectors are homing in on warehouses and distribution centres, but the site of a major workplace COVID-19 outbreak isn’t included in the ongoing inspections: Canada Post. More than 300 employees at the postal service’s Gatew...
Air traffic controllers say potential cuts at Nav Canada would put lives at risk
OTTAWA — Air traffic controllers say Nav Canada is mulling layoffs even if it receives a possible bailout from Ottawa, jeopardizing passenger safety. More cuts would axe critically needed workers and make for a more hazardous airspace in corridors acro...
Screen-shared vision: Biden-Trudeau meeting to feature common ground, old irritants
WASHINGTON — Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden — a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 — offers hope of a new start for Canada-U. S. relations. It will be the...
‘Trojan Horse:’ Alberta to argue in court federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta is in court fighting against Ottawa's law on environmental assessment. Arguments in Alberta's Court of Appeal are expected to last all week. The Alberta government calls the Impact Assessment Act, or Bill C-69, a "Trojan Horse" that attempts to...
‘Trojan Horse:’ Alberta to argue that federal assessment law unconstitutional
Alberta and its allies are in the province's highest court trying to have the federal government's environmental assessment act declared unconstitutional. "The Trojan Horse has now arrived," say arguments submitted to the Alberta Court of Appeal by the...
Conservatives win all-party support of Uighur genocide vote in House of Commons
OTTAWA — Canada's House of Commons voted unanimously in favour Monday of a Conservative motion declaring as genocide the atrocities committed against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province. Liberal backbenchers answered the Conservative cal...
