Category Archives: National
Canada has ‘significant’ concerns about China: Defence Minister
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is taking aim at what he describes as China’s unpredictability, refusal to play by the rules and expanding footprint around the world, saying those are among the “significant” concerns Canada and its allies have
Pandemic forced Trudeau back to centre stage, improved his political fortunes
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau always knew 2020 was going to be a difficult year, his first leading a minority Liberal government dependent on opposition party support for its survival. But that's turned out to be the least of the prime minister's
Emotional Dr. Theresa Tam very thankful for speed of COVID-19 vaccine delivery
OTTAWA — Canada's top public health officer has been a model of stoicism through the first year of COVID-19, but Dr. Theresa Tam still got a little choked up last week when the first Canadians were inoculated with a COVID-19
Traditional knowledge at centre of efforts to protect land from shipwreck’s fuel
BLIGH ISLAND — Not far from an oily sheen on the waters of British Columbia's Nootka Sound is a site that the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation considers the centre of the world. Dorothy Hunt, who is part of the environmental unit for
Canada passes 500,000 COVID-19 cases following Saskatchewan report
Canada surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday as infections continued to surge while the vaccine rollout reached its final province. Saskatchewan pushed the country over the grim threshold Saturday, with 252 new cases reported as wel...
Singh strives to carve out space for NDP as Tories, Liberals target his turf
OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh is being squeezed. Crowded on one side by spend-happy Liberals, on another by socially conscious Greens and, most recently, by Conservatives homing in on working-class voters, the NDP leader has his elbows up to hold ground for
A year of COVID-19 has reversed a decade of progress helping world’s poor: Gould
OTTAWA — International Development Minister Karina Gould isn't running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could — wrestling a sizable increase in Canadian foreign-aid spending. Gould announced a $485...
Carole James, former B.C. finance minister, says she was driven to give back
VICTORIA — Carole James says she was still deciding whether to run in British Columbia's provincial election earlier this year when a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease gave her the answer. It was last March, just days before B.C. imposed strict health
Meng’s lawyers outline new branch of argument in extradition case documents
VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou allege the United States' legal case against her violates common international law and the extradition proceedings against her should be stayed. In a notice of application filed with the B.C. Suprem...
Rules for fuels: Federal government proposes regulations for Clean Fuel Standard
OTTAWA — The federal government has proposed rules for its Clean Fuel Standard that producers and distributors would have to follow under its climate plan. "As the world moves to a cleaner economy, countries and businesses around the world are making
