Category Archives: National
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Jan. 10, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday Jan. 10, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 23,697 new vaccinations administered for a total of 319,938 doses given. There were zero new vaccines delivered
Federal government weighs listing Proud Boys as terror group
OTTAWA — Authorities are collecting information about the right-wing Proud Boys group as part of a possible terrorist designation, the federal Liberal government said Sunday as it faced calls to ban the organization over its role in last week’s Capitol...
Canada joins allies in condemning latest Hong Kong arrests by China
OTTAWA — Canada's foreign affairs minister is joining counterparts from the U.S., Britain and Australia in condemning last week's mass arrest of politicians and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Fifty-five people were arrested last week under a sec...
Canada’s mission in Iraq at a crossroads as ISIL declines, new threats emerge
OTTAWA — More than six years after Canada first deployed troops to the Middle East to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces personnel remain in the region.Canada is now at a
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Jan. 10, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday Jan. 10, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 20,568 new vaccinations administered for a total of 296,241 doses given. There were zero new vaccines delivered
COVID-19 vaccine arrives in remote First Nations across Canada
First Nations across Canada have begun to receive doses of COVID-19 vaccines as provincial immunization programs get underway and Indigenous leaders encourage people to roll up their sleeves. Six of 14 Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations on Vancouver Island w...
A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Jan. 9, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday Jan. 9, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 20,568 new vaccinations administered for a total of 296,241 doses given. There were zero new vaccines delivered
Curfew goes into effect in Quebec amid soaring COVID-19 case numbers across Canada
COVID-19 numbers continued to soar in many parts of Canada on Saturday as a long-standing pandemic hot spot imposed the country's strictest public health measures to date. Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced earlier in the week that Quebecers wou...
They stayed the blazes home: Why East Coast politicians avoided COVID travel scandal
HALIFAX — While much of the rest of Canada was consumed with stories about politicians ignoring pandemic protocols and jetting south to sunny climes, Atlantic Canadians this week were puzzling over a tepid scandal involving a New Brunswick cabinet mini...
Victoria no longer flushes raw sewage into ocean after area opens treatment plant
VICTORIA — The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily. The opening of the system
