Tag Archives: National

OTTAWA - The Inuit Circumpolar Council says if the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, communities in Canada, Alaska and Greenland are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic l...

The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 11:40 a.m. Toronto's top public-health doctor says the latest patient diagnosed with COVID-19 there used p...

TORONTO - An Ontario court is hearing that prisoner access to sterile syringes is essential health care. In addition, advocates say provision of that health care should be separate from prison securit...

LACHUTE, Que. - A funeral will be held today for Oceane Boyer, a Quebec teen who was brutally killed last week. Parents and relatives of the 13-year-old girl are receiving condolences this mornin...

TORONTO - Tim Hortons says it will temporarily stop accepting reusable cups brought in by customers amid concerns about the novel coronavirus outbreak. The company has also put on hold plans it had to...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the RCMP is assisting Ukrainian authorities in a criminal investigation of the downing of flight PS752. The Ukraine International Air...

TORONTO - Ontario Liberals will gather this weekend to select their new leader, a person who will face the daunting task of whipping a decimated party back into fighting form in time for an election j...

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said th...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government will soon announce support for Canadians who have to be quarantined in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. He also s...

Ontario's Ministry of Health says there is a new case of the novel coronavirus in the province. A spokeswoman with the ministry said the patient had recently travelled to Las Vegas. It is considered t...