Canadian News
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:44:14 EDTCanoe sprinters win bronze, setting Canadian medal record for non-boycotted Olympics
Laurence Vincent Lapointe and Katie Vincent have won Canada's 23rd medal at the Tokyo Olympics — a record for the country outside of the boycotted 1984 Games.
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 21:50:43 EDTBorder guards, Ottawa reach tentative deal days before travel restrictions ease
Canada's border agents reached a new tentative agreement with the federal government late Friday after a daylong work-to-rule campaign left long lines of semi-trailers and passenger vehicles idling fo...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:47:07 EDTB.C. fire crews risked their lives to help residents who ignored evacuation orders: minister
Another British Columbia community has been devastated by a raging wildfire, and more could be at risk from a blaze between Kamloops and Vernon in the province's southern Interior.
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 06:00:00 EDTCanadian women's soccer team delivers thrilling Olympic gold-medal victory over Sweden
A relentless Olympic run by the Canadian women's soccer team has finished with a thrilling gold-medal victory. After back-to-back bronze medals at the last two Games, Canada defeated Sweden 3-2 on pen...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 14:51:04 EDTChristine Sinclair's quiet confidence carried Canadian soccer for decades
Christine Sinclair's greatness shouldn't be defined by scoring all those goals, playing all those games or, now, winning Olympic gold. Sinclair's legacy should be defined by inspiring a nation and wom...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 18:32:25 EDTWhat's it like to watch your goalkeeper partner play for Olympic gold? Surprisingly calm, then exhilarating
Bleary-eyed fans across the country watched nervously as the Canadian women's soccer team took the field against Sweden in a closely contested Olympic gold-medal match early Friday morning, but Georgi...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 12:06:32 EDTLondon man saves family of 4 'all drowning simultaneously' at Ontario beach
A London firefighter-in-training says he was at the right place, at the right time when he came across a Mississauga family of four struggling to stay above water at Ontario's Grand Bend South Beach.
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Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:40:42 EDTSask. government to rethink pact with Extendicare after 'very troubling' nursing home outbreak report
The Saskatchewan government says it will rethink its relationship with private nursing home operator Extendicare after an independent investigation found the company was clearly unprepared to respo...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:18:05 EDTHow this Black woman from Niagara helped keep a Kentucky slave free and other remarkable stories
A new Niagara Historical Society book chronicles the forgotten or never-recognized stories of Black women from the region, including how one woman helped keep a Black man free after he escaped slavery...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 09:01:21 EDTCanada added 94,000 jobs in July, pushing jobless rate down to 7.5%
Canada's economy added 94,000 jobs in July, far fewer than what economists were expecting, but enough to push the jobless rate down to 7.5 per cent.
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 07:12:31 EDTTurned around at the U.S. border, forced to quarantine for 14 days: An Ontario man's 'ridiculous' ordeal
An Ontario man is speaking out about what he calls an "illogical" situation after being forced to quarantine for 14 days even though he was denied entry into the U.S. — and never made it past the bo...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 10:43:21 EDTMore than 400,000 dehumidifiers recalled in Canada for fire risk
Dehumidifiers under the brand names Danby, De’Longhi, Edgestar, Friedrich, Honeywell and others are being recalled in Canada because of a risk of overheating and catching fire.
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:00:00 EDTHow the killing of a Black man in Repentigny is fuelling calls to end racism in Quebec policing
Repentigny police have been involved in several human rights complaints, but the force's discriminatory practices point to a larger issue of policing in the province.
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 07:00:00 EDTIndigenous cultural burning can boost biodiversity, help fight forest fires: Canadian study
A new University of Waterloo study that examines controlled fire practices — or cultural burning by Indigenous people — indicates they can help improve an area's biodiversity while getting rid bit...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:00:00 EDTPainful as it may be, pandemic wage and business subsidies will eventually stop
It is a well-known principle of economics that subsidies are easy to give and hard to take away. But experts say current federal supports may have outlived their usefulness.
Thu, 5 Aug 2021 17:00:00 EDTOPP interview St. Anne's residential school survivor who alleges he was victim of rape
Ontario Provincial Police investigators have interviewed a residential school survivor over an alleged rape he says he suffered as a child while attending one of the country’s most notorious institu...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:00:00 EDTThousands of COVID-19 doses set to expire while millions of Canadians haven't signed up for a shot
Now that a majority of Canadians have been fully vaccinated, pharmacists and health-care providers face a new challenge: finding enough people to sign up for a dose before their supply expires.
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Fri, 6 Aug 2021 04:00:00 EDTSome MPs are leaving interesting races behind them as they move into retirement
With the country marching toward an anticipated fall federal election, a number of interesting contests are shaping up in some of the almost two dozen ridings where sitting MPs have announced th...
Fri, 6 Aug 2021 07:24:40 EDTCoronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Friday
Half of all Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House official said Friday, as the Biden administration continues to urge people to get the shot amid a resurgence in infection...
Thu, 5 Aug 2021 12:01:34 EDTExtendicare was 'woefully unprepared' for Sask.'s deadliest COVID-19 nursing home outbreak: ombudsman
Saskatchewan's ombudsman says private nursing home operator Extendicare was "woefully unprepared" for the November 2020 outbreak at its Parkside home in Regina. The company says it's "deeply sorry" fo...