Category Archives: National
Chinese-Canadians voice worries about racism, job losses one year in to pandemic
VANCOUVER — COVID-19 has taken a toll on many Canadians, but for Chinese-Canadians the impacts have been magnified by racism aimed at individuals and businesses, community leaders say. Amy Go, the president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for ...
Politics, meet PlayStation: how 2020 ushered in the era of campaign videogaming
WASHINGTON — Call it the age of PlayStation politics. Where Bill Clinton went on MTV and Barack Obama seized on social media, modern-day Democrats see online video gaming as the next high-tech frontier for reaching young voters. And a Canadian compan...
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 8, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday Feb. 8, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 11,885 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,076,130 doses given. The provinces have administered doses at
Canada’s sluggish COVID-19 vaccination program won’t get better this week
OTTAWA — Canada's languid vaccination efforts have no chance of improvement this week with just 70,200 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine scheduled to start arriving. Provinces and territories have already administered almost 90 per cent of the vacci...
Mandatory hotel quarantines could harm lower-income Canadians: Lawyer
OTTAWA — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is questioning Ottawa's move to require hotel quarantines for international travellers, saying it may harm lower-income Canadians and infringe on citizens' mobility rights. Cara Zwibel, a lawyer who hea...
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 7, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 11,885 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,076,130 doses given. The provinces have administered doses at
Quebec passes 10,000 COVID-19 deaths as Ontario reports case of Brazil variant
Canada hit more unwanted firsts in its battle against the COVID-19 pandemic on Sunday, as Quebec became the first province to surpass 10,000 deaths and Toronto reported Ontario's first case of a variant first identified in Brazil. The news came on
MPs demand relocation of 2022 Olympics due to China’s abuse of Uighurs
More than a dozen federal lawmakers from all parties are calling for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be moved outside China, citing a "genocidal campaign" by the state against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. An open letter signed by 13 MPs,
Federal funding to help former GGs set up charitable foundations is discretionary
OTTAWA — The federal government has allocated $30 million over the past 15 years to sustain charitable foundations created by governors general once they leave office. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office won't say if the current government would...
Grief persists for spouses of first responders, soldiers killed in line of duty
OTTAWA — Angela Gevaudan recalls the first year after her RCMP-officer husband was killed on duty as a whirlwind of responsibility and emotion that offered her little time to process her grief and loss.Const. Fabrice Gevaudan was one of three
