Category Archives: National
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Nov. 17, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 8:25 p.m. Yukon has recorded another COVID-19 case, bringing the total in the territory to 25 since the pandemic started. Chief medical health officer Dr. Brendan Hanley says the l...
COVID-19 crisis cascading in U.S. as presidential election drama recedes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every day, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg joins the countless ranks of U.S. commuters still making their way to work in the national capital. In the city where she once worked as a Senate aide, however, Firstenberg's current job i...
Tories push Liberals to decide 5G, Huawei amid China imprisonment of Kovrig, Spavor
OTTAWA — Chinese telecom giant Huawei rose to dominance by stealing the technology of the defunct Canadian firm Nortel, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says. O'Toole levelled the industrial-espionage charge against Huawei and the Chinese Communist Par...
Navy could get converted Davie supply ships at fraction of price of building new: PBO
Ottawa could buy two converted civilian vessels from a Quebec shipyard to serve as support ships for the Royal Canadian Navy for a fraction of the cost of building brand new ones, according to Parliament’s budget watchdog. In a new report
Growing number of Canadians plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the proportion of Canadians planning to get vaccinated for COVID-19 is on the rise after encouraging initial results from Pfizer's vaccine trial. Sixty-nine per cent of respondents said they plan to get inoculated against t...
Alberta facing ‘exponential growth’ of COVID-19 cases: top doctor
EDMONTON — Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says the province is at a dangerous plateau, with almost 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last three days, 20 new deaths and overwhelmed contact chasers. “We have entered an exponential growth period
Ex-Mountie faces grilling from former minister’s lawyer, repeats earlier testimony
VANCOUVER — A retired RCMP officer repeated his earlier testimony Tuesday at British Columbia's public inquiry into money laundering that former cabinet minister Kash Heed told him the government's gaming minister was aware of organized crime in casino...
CP NewsAlert: Canada surpasses 300,000 COVID cases, more than 100,000 in past month
Canada reached a troubling milestone on Monday, surpassing 300,000 total COVID cases since the pandemic began earlier this year, and health experts are alarmed — but not surprised — by the rapid growth we've seen over the last few weeks. The
Flu season in Canada ‘exceptionally low’ so far, public health says
OTTAWA — At this point during last year's flu season, Canada had already recorded 711 positive cases of influenza. So far this year, there have been just 17. "Influenza is way behind the eight ball here," said Dr. Gerald Evans, chair of
‘No government contracts’ for companies that don’t manufacture in U.S., Biden vows
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that he's the president-elect, Joe Biden is doubling down on his promise that economic recovery efforts in the United States will remain a made-in-America endeavour. Biden, who was vice-president when Canada last confronted...
