OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will make good today on his election promise to require all federal employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.Trudeau is expected to announce at a news conference this morning a new policy of mandatory...

GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut — The RCMP officer who shot and killed an armed man in a remote Nunavut community is scheduled to continue his testimony today at a coroner's inquest.Cpl. Ian Crowe fired at 21-year-old Charles Qirngnirq in December 2016, after ...

VICTORIA — British Columbia's seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie said last spring the review will examine more than two dozen of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks at car...

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh is to tell the first meeting of the NDP caucus that pursuing Indigenous rights — including access to clean drinking water — will be a key priority for the party in this Parliament.The first meeting of all New Democrat MPs...

OTTAWA — More than 30 national and provincial health organizations are trying to decide which of the devastating effects COVID-19 has taken on Canadian health care to tackle first, as they work to steer the country out of crisis. The Canadian Medic...

SURREY, B.C. — One person is dead after a shooting in Surrey Tuesday night.RCMP were called to the 12200 block of 80 Avenue for a gunshot call at approximately 9:56 p.m.An adult victim was found with gunshot wounds, but died of their injuries at th...

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $25 million jackpot in Tuesday's Lotto Max draw.That means the jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 8 will grow to an estimated $31 million.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is allowing more people to get a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.The province is suggesting a third dose for all health-care workers who have direct contact with patients in areas including hospitals, care homes,...

The deadline for about 46,000 health-care workers in long-term care and assisted living to be fully vaccinated has been extended, and visitors will also be required to get vaccinated, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced Tuesday.In Au...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was put to death Tuesday for killing three workers while robbing a convenience store nearly three decades ago, an execution performed over objections from racial justice activists, lawmakers and even the pope....

Coroner Géhane Kamel investigated the death of Joyce Echaquan and issued several recommendations after finding that her death was accidental but preventable. Kamel concluded that the racism and prejudice the Indigenous woman was subjected to contrib...

Branches hitting power lines due to high winds led to power outages that hit thousands of customers in the capital region and Southern Gulf Islands on Tuesday. By 2:30 p.m., outages affected 4,215 customers on the south Island, including in Sooke, Me...

WINNIPEG — Blue Bombers receiver Kenny Lawler apologized Tuesday for the "selfish decision" he made that led to his arrest for impaired driving this week.The CFL’s leader in receiving yards told media that the incident, which happened early Monda...

TORONTO — Some of the most active companies traded Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (20,183.43, up 131.18 points.)The Toronto-Dominion Bank. (TSX:TD). Financials. Up 81 cents, or 0.95 per cent, to $85.89 on 19.1 million ...

A gearbox issue that has sidelined the Spirit of Vancouver Island, which serves the busy Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay route, will affect ferry travel over the upcoming Thanksgiving Day long weekend. A smaller Coastal Class vessel will be used instead. T...

MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner on Tuesday discussed her report into the death of Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Indigenous mother of seven who filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory comments toward her sh...

Another 100,000 people who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be able to get COVID-19 booster shots, B.C.’s provincial health officer said Tuesday.Last month, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced booster shots for about 15,000 of the 300,000 people dia...

OTTAWA — Even federal employees who work from home will have to be vaccinated to keep their jobs if the government's draft mandatory-vaccine policy stands, according to one union executive.Stéphane Aubry, vice-president of the Professional Institu...

A group carrying signs in defence of First Nations land rights marched from Centennial Square to the 800-block of Yates Street Tuesday afternoon, causing traffic delays.Victoria police warned traffic would be disrupted and said officers would be ther...

OTTAWA — Canada is giving China the cold shoulder over its interest in joining an 11-country Pacific Rim trading bloc that is viewed as an important gateway to diversifying Canadian trade with other Asian countries.A spokesman for International Tra...