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With new stay-at-home order, Ontario admits previous COVID-19 lockdown was too weak
The Ontario government is ordering everyone in the province to stay at home except for essential reasons, while also allowing non-essential businesses to keep operating....
Defence lawyer says police should not be using Quebec curfew as excuse to search personal property
Sarah Vresk was heading to work at around 4 a.m. Tuesday when she was stopped near her home by Montreal police and asked...
What the cabinet shuffle does (and doesn’t) say about the next election
A cabinet shuffle in January (to borrow phrasing one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s predecessors) doesn’t necessarily mean an election — but this one does help position the...
While the nation obsessed over vaccine deliveries, the pandemic was getting worse
The arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada was the first truly good news since the pandemic began nearly a year ago. But it...
COVID-19 vs. school: We asked experts about transmission risks and what is needed to keep classrooms open
After an extended break from in-class learning for thousands of students across Canada, the winter school term is officially on. But while many have...
Canada building facilities to make vaccines for COVID-19 and other viruses here
In the initial sprint to create a vaccine for COVID-19, Pfizer and Moderna crossed the finish line first. But for Canadian researchers who...
Ontario couple faces charges over 1st cases of new COVID-19 strain, detected only by fluke
The first known cases in Canada of the U.K. variant of the coronavirus were discovered only by fluke, and the couple who fell...
Canadian internet sleuths, anti-hate group helping to identify Capitol rioters
As more and more cellphone videos surface of the storming of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., last week, Canadians are leading some of...
Military medical intelligence warnings gathered dust as public health struggled to define COVID-19
Public health officials failed to cite early warnings about the threat of COVID-19 gathered through classified military intelligence as the pandemic crisis emerged a year ago,...
RCMP launch criminal probe into COVID-19 death tied to massive Alberta meat plant outbreak
Ariana Quesada, 16, walked into the RCMP detachment in High River, Alta., on Friday and filed a formal complaint asking police to investigate...
Can Wall Street help us find the true price of water?
You could be forgiven if, amid the recent chaos of COVID-19 and U.S. politics, you missed some news related to what is arguably Canada’s...
Father-son team allege Tim Hortons took their COVID-safe lid applicator idea
Father-and-son team Yoland and Shaun Talbot thought they’d hit the jackpot with Yoland’s very first invention. But instead of a massive, almost million-dollar...
Ontario’s new COVID-19 modelling to show ICUs full by early February: sources
Ontario’s latest COVID-19 modelling will project the province’s intensive care units to be filled beyond capacity by early February, and will also show how...
How I spent a year learning to respect my body instead of wishing for a different one
This is an opinion piece by Martha Neovard, a childbirth and infant feeding educator — and a mother of three — in southern Saskatchewan. For...
Quebec’s COVID-19 curfew officially takes effect
Smartphones across Quebec buzzed Saturday with an emergency alert like no other: Be inside by 8 p.m., or face a fine. In an...
Most new Order of Canada appointees are white men, despite diversity-boosting efforts
Most of the new appointees to the Order of Canada in 2020 were white men, despite some progress made in boosting the diversity of...
