Author Archives: The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Ottawa needs to address the funding and access problems regarding post-secondary education that have been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a coalition of university faculty...

Fresh air, blazing speed and spacious alpine terrain makes skiing and snowboarding low-risk activities for COVID-19 transmission, infectious disease doctors say. But the threat is never zero during a ...

OTTAWA - The vast majority of Canadians blame Ottawa rather than provincial governments for delays in COVID-19 vaccine delivery, a new poll suggests. Sixty-nine per cent of respondents believe Canada ...

EDMONTON - Closing arguments that were to start Tuesday in the trial of an Ontario man accused of killing a woman in his Edmonton hotel room have been pushed to Wednesday. Bradley Barton is accused of...

OTTAWA - A group of prominent Canadians is calling on the CBC to rethink its decision to significantly cut staff and rebrand the globally focused Radio Canada International to focus on domestic news. ...

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - Soon after Lionel Desmond left the Canadian military in 2015, he wrote a letter to Veterans Affairs Canada to complain he was feeling "confused, angry and stressed out." The ve...

EDMONTON - One of North America's top experts on pollution from coal mines is warning Albertans about the dangers of expanding the industry in the province's Rocky Mountains. "Expansion of coal-mining...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2021. There are 826,924 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 826,924 confirmed cases (35,684 active, 769,92...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Tuesday Feb. 16, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 1,704 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,272,470 dose...

LLEIDA, Spain - Violent street protests erupted in some Spanish cities on Tuesday night following the arrest of a rap artist who barricaded himself at a university with dozens of supporters to avoid p...