Ontario declares emergency amid surging COVID-19 cases as Canada buys more vaccines
Ontario declared an emergency on Tuesday after latest modelling put Canada’s most populous province on track to have more than 20,000 new COVID-19 cases per...
Canada’s Ontario finds two cases of virus variant first seen in UK
Health officials in Ontario said on Saturday that two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom have appeared in...
Boats, planes, helicopters: Canada gears up to vaccinate remote indigenous communities
Canada’s indigenous communities have been prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine but distributing it across difficult and remote terrain will be a challenge, as authorities deploy...
Canada’s most populous province announces partial shutdown to fight coronavirus
Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, on Monday announced a partial shutdown of some businesses starting Dec. 26 and banned most indoor gatherings as it struggles...
Message in a bottle from Canada washes up in North Carolina
A North Carolina couple said they are trying to solve the mystery of a message in a bottle that traveled over 1,000 miles from Prince...
Canada expects arrival of first Pfizer/BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday
The first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Canada later on Sunday, the official in charge of the country’s vaccine rollout told the CBC,...
Infobox: How Canada will vaccinate its population against COVID-19
Canada on Wednesday approved the first COVID-19 vaccine, jointly developed by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE, and is now preparing to distribute...
Canada approves the first CVOID-19 vaccine, scheduled to be inoculated next week.
Canada on Wednesday approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every...
Canada confident in vaccine deliveries even if U.S. blocks exports
Canada is confident there will be no disruption of COVID-19 vaccine supplies even if the United States blocks their export, because vaccines are manufactured in...
Analysis: U.S. efforts on Huawei executive case may save Canada’s stalled China policy
Canada could see the end of a nasty diplomatic dispute with China if the United States reaches a deal to release a Huawei executive from...
Canada PM Trudeau suggests that the U.S. border controls will last a long time.
Canada will not agree to lifting a ban on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak is significantly under control around the...
Canada’s Atlantic bubble disintegrates as COVID-19 cases rise
The “bubble” pact between Canada’s four Atlantic provinces has disintegrated in the face of rising COVID-19 cases across the country, as premiers in Prince Edward...
EU, Canada, others push trade plan to help in COVID-19 battle
The European Union, Canada and 11 other countries agreed on Monday to measures such as eliminating export curbs they believe should form the basis of...
Trudeau warns Canada’s hospitals could be swamped, Toronto to enter COVID-19 lockdown
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that Canada’s hospital system could be overwhelmed by a possible quadrupling of new COVID-19 cases by year end...
Canada housing squeeze: Buyers moving up ‘handcuffed’ by hard-to-sell condos
Eager to move his young family into a house with a backyard amid the pandemic, Dale-Paul Jordan listed his Toronto condo for sale last month...
U.S. travel restrictions at Canada, Mexico borders set to be extended until Dec. 21: official
The United States’ land borders with Canada and Mexico are expected to remain closed to non-essential travel until Dec. 21 at the earliest amid a...
Canada’s opposition parties urge Trudeau government to ban Huawei 5G, say China is threat
Canada’s opposition on Wednesday called on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to get tougher on China, including by officially banning Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s...
Canada in talks to donate extra COVID-19 vaccine shots to poorer countries – sources
Canada, which has reserved enough doses to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 several times over, is in talks with other governments about a plan to donate...
Police evacuate Ubisoft’s Montreal office building after hoax hostage call
Police on Friday evacuated a building housing French video game maker Ubisoft's UBIP.PA Montreal offices after receiving a hostage call which turned out to be...
Biden win sparks brief jubilation for Canada but choppy road still ahead
Canada allowed itself a moment of jubilation on Saturday after Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election marked the end of four often bruising...
Quebec stabbing: Man in medieval clothing arrested after two killed in sword attack
At least two people have been stabbed to death in the Canadian city of Quebec by a man armed with a sword and dressed in...
Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2M immigrants in the next 3 years
The Canadian Government has announced plans to bring in more than 1.2 million immigrants over the next three years in an effort to use immigration...
Canada to welcome 1.2 million immigrants from Nigeria, others between 2021 and 2023
The Canadian Government says it targets receiving 1.2 million immigrants from 2021 to 2023 in order to make up for a shortfall caused this year...
U.S. borders with Canada, Mexico to stay closed to non-essential travel until Nov. 21
The United States’ land borders between Canada and Mexico will remain closed to all non-essential travel until Nov. 21, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said...
Turkey condemns Canada following decision to cease export of drones
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Canada's decision to stop the export of drone technologies, saying that doing so goes against the spirit of...
Canada will continue to stand up against Chinese human rights abuses, PM Trudeau says
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said he will continue to stand up against China’s “coercive diplomacy” and human rights abuses in Hong Kong...
Toronto will trial self-driving shuttles in early 2021
Driverless shuttles could be ideal in certain scenarios Editor's take: Officials in Toronto on Wednesday announced a partnership with Local Motors that’ll bring its electric, self-driving...
Trudeau slams China on human rights, ‘coercive diplomacy’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned against China's "coercive diplomacy" Dave Chan AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned China on Tuesday that its "coercive...
Trudeau on U.S. vote: ‘We are certainly hopeful all will proceed smoothly’
“As we watch the American election unfold, we are of course going to be prepared for various eventualities,” Trudeau said. Governments and business leaders across...
State funeral held for former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner
A state funeral was held on Tuesday for former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner who passed away last month at the age of 91. Turner,...
Canada halts drone sales to Turkey after claims of use by Azerbaijan
"In line with Canada's robust export control regime and due to the ongoing hostilities, I have suspended the relevant export permits to Turkey, so as...
Canadian warship sails near Taiwan at time of heightened China tension
A Canadian warship has sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, the island’s defence ministry said on Saturday, a voyage that comes at a time of...
Canada to keep U.S. border curbs until pandemic is much less serious
Canada will maintain restrictions on non-essential travel with the United States until the coronavirus outbreak in both nations is much less serious, a senior government...
Virus situation ‘critical’ in Canada’s Quebec province: premier
Servers wait for customers at a restaurant patio in Montreal in July 2020 after a pandemic lockdown was lifted. Those restrictions have been partially reintroduced...
Ontario projects surge of COVID-19 cases akin to hard hit Australia state
Ontario could reach 1,000 new COVID-19 cases per day in the first half of October, new projections released on Wednesday showed, putting Canada’s most populous...
Britain and Canada impose sanctions on Belarus leader Lukashenko
Britain and Canada imposed travel bans and asset freezes on Tuesday on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, his son and other senior officials, accusing their government...
COVID-19 restrictions coming for Montreal, Quebec City, as infections surge
Quebec Premier Francois Legault arrives at a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic at the National Assembly in Quebec City, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. Photo...
Canada’s Quebec expected to announce new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise
Quebec, the Canadian province hardest hit by the novel coronavirus, reported another sharp increase in daily infections on Monday, and media reports said Premier Francois...
Young Nigerian man declared missing in Canada
A Nigerian man identified as Joshua Ayodele Fasipe has been declared missing in Canada. Latoye Sade, a Canada-based Nigerian Twitter user, who confirmed this...
Woman dies, infant and child injured in two-vehicle crash in North End
On Saturday afternoon, a Winnipeg Police Traffic Unit officers were in the area of Salter Street and Boyd Avenue when they observed a vehicle in...
COVID-19 vaccine needed to inject ‘normal’ back into our lives: Dr. Yaffe
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health provides an update on COVID-19 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Photo by Veronica Henri /Toronto Sun/Postmedia...
Toronto cops seek owner of six WW2 medals found in drug bust
Toronto Police are seeking the owner of six Second World War medals investigators found while performing a drug investigation earlier this month. Photo by SUPPLIED...
Edmonton masseur charged with sexual assault
An Edmonton Police Service marked vehicle. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia An Edmonton massage therapist has been charged with sexual assault after two women complained...
Toronto’s top doc shuts down three King West restaurants over COVID containment concerns
Toronto restaurant Marbl during their grand opening media preview on Nov. 29 2018. Photo by Bryan Passifiume /Toronto Sun The city’s top medical doctor, Eileen...
Canada’s biggest provinces seek clampdown on social gatherings as coronavirus cases top 150,000
Canada’s two most populous provinces on Friday moved to clamp down further on social gatherings in a bid to slow a second wave of coronavirus...
Canada’s New Democrats will back Trudeau’s government, averting election
Canada’s left-leaning opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) on Friday said it would back Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a confidence vote to be held in...
U.S., UK, Canada plan sanctions on Belarusians, perhaps Friday
The United States, Britain and Canada plan to impose sanctions on Belarusian individuals following what they view as a rigged election and violence against peaceful...
Canada government proposes boost to unemployment benefit in move likely to avert election
Canada’s government on Thursday proposed boosting a weekly payout for the jobless that would replace emergency COVID-19 income support that ends this weekend, a move...
Canada says Lukashenko is not ‘legitimate’ leader of Belarus: foreign minister
Alexander Lukashenko is not the legitimate leader of Belarus and he is disregarding basic human rights and democratic principles, Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said...
Canada’s COVID-19 testing system overwhelmed after slow move to new tests
Canada’s recent spike in COVID-19 cases has created day-long lines at testing centers and prolonged waits for results, highlighting gaps in a system that leans...