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Pandemic financial pressures deplete finances, spirits as festive season approaches
TORONTO — Pandemic restrictions and financial strain mean Christmas will look different than past years for Tia Cyr and her family, so she enlisted Santa in breaking the news to her son. The Alberta mom says she told her six-year-old that
Anti-Black racism case against school board heading to Quebec rights tribunal
MONTREAL — A Quebec mother and her two children have been awarded $65,000 by the province's Human Rights Commission, which found against a Montreal-area school board over allegations of racism, aggression and failure to provide a racism-free school env...
Eight people test positive for COVID-19 at B.C. mink farm, outbreak declared
BURNABY, B.C. — A health authority has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at a mink farm after eight people at the operation in British Columbia's Fraser Valley tested positive for the disease. Fraser Health says in a statement it is screening people
Speakers’ Spotlight threatened after being caught up in WE affair: co-founder
OTTAWA — A small business that used to book speaking engagements for Justin Trudeau and his family has been caught in the partisan crossfire of the WE Charity affair. Martin Perelmuter, who co-founded Speakers' Spotlight 25 years ago with his wife,
Liberals set to kick-start talks on new child-care system and funding, Hussen says
OTTAWA — Two key federal cabinet ministers marked the anniversary of a landmark report on women's issues in Canada with a political push for a national daycare system, encouraging provinces and MPs to not stand in the way of the
Nunavut starts rapid testing residents in Winnipeg isolation hub
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut residents staying in isolation hotels in Winnipeg are being given the option to take a rapid test for COVID-19. Since March, anyone who leaves Nunavut must isolate for 14 days in a hotel in Yellowknife, Edmonton, Winnipeg
Prime Minister says first COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving this month
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the first COVID-19 vaccine doses are on track to arrive this month, as tough new measures took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a new daily case record today. Trudeau says Ottawa has reached
Vaccines coming this month, as Ontario hits new daily record and P.E.I. locks down
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the largest mass immunization effort in Canadian history could begin as early as next week, as tough new measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 took effect in Prince Edward Island and Ontario hit a
First doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, not yet approved, to land in Canada next week
OTTAWA — A small number of the most vulnerable Canadians could be immunized against COVID-19 before the holidays as the first doses of Pfizer's vaccine are set to arrive next week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday the contract with the
Veteran executive Michael Sabia named next deputy minister of Finance
OTTAWA — The prime minister has announced that veteran executive Michael Sabia will be the next deputy minister of Finance. He will take the job effective Dec. 14. Sabia replaces Paul Rochon, who will become senior official at the Privy Council Office....
