Murray Wood: The Saskatchewan farmer who heard a cry and reacted heroically
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Extending pandemic jobs program aimed to cost extra $600 million, PBO says
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says extending a pandemic measure designed to avoid layoffs at companies will cost the federal treasury almost $600 million over three years. Most of the extr...
Jul 08, 2021
Canada monitoring 'whole slew' of variants, says chief public health officer
OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says the latest variant of interest in the COVID-19 pandemic has popped up in Canada in small numbers, but it's too early to know how widespread it...
Jul 08, 2021
Human rights complaint alleges First Nation adults with disabilities left behind
WINNIPEG - Three human rights complaints have been filed against the federal government alleging systemic discrimination and a failure to provide proper services to First Nations adults with disabilit...
Jul 08, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Thursday, July 8, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 8:05 p.m. Yukon is reporting 10 new cases of COVID-19 since Wednesday, bringing the territory's total number of active cases to ...
Jul 08, 2021
Fans banned at Olympics; Tokyo under state of emergency
TOKYO - Fans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said after meeting with IOC and Japanese organizers on Thursday. The ban c...
Jul 08, 2021
Fans banned at Olympics; Tokyo under state of emergency
TOKYO - Fans were banned from the pandemic-postponed Tokyo Olympics which will open in two weeks, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said after meeting with IOC and Japanese organizers on Thursday. The ban c...
Jul 08, 2021
Pope temporarily had fever 3 days after intestinal surgery
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis temporarily had a fever three days after intestinal surgery, but routine tests and scans proved negative, the Vatican said Thursday. The Vatican's daily update said Francis wa...
Jul 08, 2021
Canada not doomed to fourth wave of COVID-19, doctors say, despite U.K.'s experience
OTTAWA - A fourth wave of COVID-19 now surging across the United Kingdom doesn't have to become a reality in Canada as long as people keep getting vaccinated as quickly as possible, some infectious di...
Jul 08, 2021
A look at COVID-19 reopening plans across the country
As COVID-19 vaccination rates increase and case numbers drop across the country, the provinces and territories have begun releasing the reopening plans for businesses, events and recreational faciliti...
Jul 08, 2021
Global COVID-19 deaths hit 4 million amid rush to vaccinate
The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over the...
Jul 07, 2021
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