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Alberta to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions
The latest: A cabinet committee of Alberta’s United Conservative government is expected to meet Monday to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions....
Couples fight for refunds after COVID-19 cancels wedding events
Joyce Fung and Calvin Chan thought they’d be newlyweds by now — partway through their first year of wedded bliss, not still locked...
Anand says AstraZeneca doses could arrive from the U.S. this week
Procurement Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa could take delivery of AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine doses from the United States as early as this week. Ottawa’s...
Great COVID-19 bicycle boom expected to keep bike industry on its toes for years to come
Some bicycle shops across Canada are so busy with a pandemic-triggered boom in sales and its subsequent backlog that even answering phone calls is a struggle. At Sidesaddle Bike Shop in Vancouver,...
Jews in Russian city scarred by WWII massacre watch Canada’s decision on Nazi interpreter
As the evening light falls over the gentle slope of the ravine, Natalia Yefimushkina, her head tightly bound in a red scarf, stares...
Controversial neck hold still being used by Mounties as RCMP reviews its safety
The RCMP says it hopes to have a decision later this year on whether it will continue teaching Mounties to use a controversial...
In nurses’ firing, union calls for due process, while First Nations leaders hope broader concerns aren’t lost
The two nurses accused of racist treatment against an Atikamekw woman should not have been fired before the incident was investigated fully, a...
Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service
For the generation comfortable communicating using only emojis or through TikTok videos, it’s a baffling sight still found in many offices: a bulky...
Ontario’s 3rd wave of COVID-19 could hit younger adults harder. Here’s why
In Scarborough, the east-end Toronto area that’s been hit hard by the pandemic, Dr. Lisa Salamon was shocked by the impact of COVID-19...
If he’s ever going to win, Erin O’Toole needs to start broadening the Conservative tent
If the Conservatives want to win the next election, they’ll need a broader coalition of voters behind them. But building that coalition has...
New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease
Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a...
Dramatic rise in reports of sexual assaults doesn’t lead to similar rise in charges
Reports of sexual assault to police are up significantly across the country, especially on P.E.I. where they have more than doubled in the past...
Genetic genealogy pushes Toronto detectives close to identifying killer in 2 cold cases from 1983
Detectives with the Toronto Police Service say they are close to identifying the killer responsible for two cold cases from 1983. They have...
People are celebrating their COVID-19 vaccine shots with selfies. Some think it’s time to give it a rest
Initially, Dr. Alan Drummond welcomed the idea of the so-called vaccine selfie — people sharing their COVID-19 vaccination pictures on social media — as a celebration and...
Mom vows to fight for daughter who died by suicide in hospital psychiatric unit
Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression, she took her boyfriend’s gun in the middle of the night, drove...
How masks could affect speech and language development in children
A video of a one-year-old walking up to random objects, pressing on them and rubbing her hands together as she walks away went...
