Canadian News
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:06:19 ESTHealth Canada approves AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine
Health Canada has approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, which is expected to arrive in Canada in the second and third quarters of this year.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:38:57 ESTDissociative episodes made N.S. veteran relive time in Afghanistan, fatality inquiry hears
The military psychiatrist to first treat Lionel Desmond after he was released from the military, described his post-traumatic stress disorder as severe when they met in 2015 — and it included dissoc...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:00:00 EST2 Vancouver police officers caught on video posing with dead man on Third Beach
Video shows the officers laughing and photographing themselves in front of a body lying face down near the waterline.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:43:08 ESTMuslim woman targeted in racist attack says call to Edmonton police left her doubly traumatized
A Black Muslim woman who was threatened and subjected to racial slurs at a south Edmonton LRT station says she has been doubly traumatized — by her assailant and city police.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:38:22 ESTScariolo steps in as Raptors defeat Rockets with Nurse, Siakam in COVID-19 protocol
With Nick Nurse, five members of his coaching staff, and star forward Pascal Siakam sidelined on Friday due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, 59-year-old Sergio Scariolo stepped in to guide the...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:07:53 ESTAlberta judge turns down request for injunction to maintain last-resort opioid treatment program
A judge has rejected an application for an emergency injunction that would have maintained a last-resort treatment for Albertans suffering from the most severe forms of opioid addiction.
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Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:53:31 ESTWestJet to lay off undisclosed number of pilots amid labour negotiations
WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it is laying off an undisclosed number of pilots amid negotiations with the union that represents them.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:30:00 ESTAnancy and the Turtle: Thunder Bay author shares popular African folktale in new children's book
A folktale, shared for centuries by West Africans and passed down as a story of hope by their descendants, many of whom were enslaved and transported around the world, is retold by a Thunder Bay, Ont....
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:13:59 ESTSite C dam budget nearly doubles to $16B, but B.C. NDP forging on with megaproject
The B.C. NDP government is forging ahead with the Site C dam project after receiving technical reports concluding the project is safe and financial estimates indicating the cost of reversing the proj...
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:04:12 ESTSick of pandemic lockdowns, eager campers flood Ontario park-reservation sites
It seems people are sick of being hunkered down at home in pandemic lockdowns and are yearning for a summer getaway, snapping up campsites at Ontario parks in numbers that are almost double that of la...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:55:36 ESTCanadian Medical Association elects first Indigenous president
The Canadian Medical Association has elected its first Indigenous president — a milestone that arrives as the health care sector grapples with its own racism problems.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:48:04 ESTOntario alerts health-care workers about counterfeit N95 respirators that slipped detection
Ontario’s health ministry said Friday a number of counterfeit N95 respirators were sent to health-care providers and that it's now investigating how they products wound up in the provincial stockp...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:22:42 ESTCanada Pension Plan chief resigns after getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in Dubai
The chief executive of the fund that manages Canada Pension Plan investments has resigned after it was revealed that he decided to travel to the United Arab Emirates, where he arranged to be vaccinate...
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:16:37 ESTB.C. babysitter's conviction in death of child may have been miscarriage of justice, review finds
A B.C.’s babysitter’s conviction in the 2011 death of a toddler may have been the result of a miscarriage of justice, according to a special prosecutor appointed by the province.
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 04:00:00 ESTFamily seeks return of Cindy Gladue's remains from Alberta medical examiner's office
The family of Cindy Gladue, a 36 year-old Cree-Metis woman whose killer was found guilty of manslaughter last week, wants Alberta’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to return her remains so they...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 05:00:00 ESTOntario man fined $3.8K at land border crossing amid confusion over who's 'essential'
An Ontario man who says he normally has no problem crossing the Windsor-Detroit border for work was surprised to learn this week he's subject to new rules — because, he was told, he doesn't cross ev...
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 11:35:00 ESTMeet a Toronto man with a passion for collecting phone books
For most of us, our phone books are in our smart phones. But Fred Meandro has had to make room for dozens of them in his Toronto condo. The 66-year-old is an avid collector and says you can learn a lo...
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 04:00:00 ESTAssault victims angered by plea deal for 'dangerous' police officer
Two women who were assaulted by Ottawa police Const. Eric Post say a plea deal brokered by the Crown diminishes the violence and fear the officer inflicted upon them. Post initially faced 32 charges r...
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:23:00 ESTAdapting to civilian life was a struggle for N.S. veteran who killed family, himself: psychologist
Lionel Desmond struggled to transition to civilian life, at times reporting that he drank upward of 70 beers a week and ate fewer than 600 calories a day, the first psychologist who saw him after leav...
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:35:19 ESTVariants will likely make up 40% of Ontario's COVID-19 cases by mid-March, modelling predicts
Ontario's public health measures have decreased COVID-19 transmission and have slowed the spread of variants of concern, according to new modelling released by the province's Science Table Thursday.
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