Category Archives: National
Canada a bright light in a horrible year for refugee resettlement: UN refugee agency
OTTAWA — The year 2020 will go down as the worst for refugee resettlement in recent history, says the UN refugee agency's Canadian representative. With nearly 168 countries implementing border and travel restrictions, millions of displaced people arou...
Series of gaps allowed massive Desjardins data breach, privacy watchdog says
OTTAWA — A series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins — the largest to date in the Canadian financial services sector, the federal privacy watchdog has found. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien sai...
Ontario to administer first COVID-19 vaccines today
TORONTO — Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. Premier Doug Ford's office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network. ...
Senators likely to propose major amendments to assisted dying bill
OTTAWA — It was out of the political frying pan and into the fire Monday for the Trudeau government's bill to expand access to medically assisted dying. Opening debate on Bill C-7 began in the Senate, where the government has no
Former PM Brian Mulroney recovering after emergency surgery
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released from hospital this afternoon. Mulroney is 81. His d...
Former Liberal cabinet minister Alfonso Gagliano dies
OTTAWA — Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died.He was 78.His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, which occurred Saturday.Gagliano represented the Montre...
First COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada, more en route
MONTREAL — The first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Canada. Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Twitter, sharing a photo...
Some older Canadians opt to take their chances, winter in Florida despite pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that they're safely back in Florida, Rose and Perry Cohen are looking forward to one of the joys of retirement: an extended lunch with friends. Extended, at least, in the 2020 sense of the word. "We can extend
Twenty-five years after Rwanda, where is Canada on peacekeeping?
OTTAWA — When now-retired major-general Guy Tousignant handed over command of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda 1995, Canada had been involved in virtually every UN mission over the previous four-plus decades. But after the scandal of ...
‘Walk-of-shame’ comment prompts call to change police sexual assault investigations
VICTORIA — A woman's complaints about being asked about a "walk of shame" by a Saanich police officer after reporting an alleged sexual assault has prompted British Columbia's police complaints commissioner to call for provincial standards for sex crim...
