Canada on Thursday said the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe after Denmark and Norway temporarily suspended its use amid reports that blood clots had formed in some who had received the shot. “Health Canada is aware of reports of adverse events in Europe following immunization with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine,...
A 10-year-old girl whose family recently arrived in Canada from Mexico experienced something that no person, let alone a young child, should in Vancouver this weekend. According to the Vancouver Police Department, the girl was waiting in line outside a restaurant in the 200 block of Keefer Street on Saturday...
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. There are 893,518 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 893,518 confirmed cases (30,179 active, 841,035 resolved, 22,304 deaths).*The total case count includes 13 confirmed cases among repatriated travellers. There were 2,826 new cases...
The Bank of Canada will provide a window into its thinking on the economy as it makes an announcement about its trendsetting rate. The key policy rate has been at 0.25 per cent almost exactly one year after the central bank cut rates three times last March at the onset...
Calling his evidence “implausible,” “untenable” and straining “the bounds of credulity” a Calgary judge has convicted a massage therapist of sexually assaulting 11 of his male clients. But in acquitting Dennis Baltazar Tuesday on five of the 16 charges he faced, Justice Willie de Wit said the evidence of some...
Ottawa police have opened a homicide investigation after a man was found dead Sunday on a snowmobile trail south of Richmond. Police said the body was discovered by a passerby on the trail off Dobson Lane. Police were called to the area near McBean Street and Dobson Lane just before...
The Conservatives are firing back at allegations they’re holding up legislation by accusing the Liberals of using their own tactics to engineer an election this spring. “Canadians don’t want a risky pandemic election, but with every filibuster, delay in producing House-ordered documents, and the poorly organized legislative calendar, it’s becoming...
A northern Saskatchewan highway is closed following a serious crash that killed one person, according to RCMP. On Sunday Prince Albert RCMP responded to a crash between an empty fuel truck and a small car on Highway 3 between Weldon and Birch Hills, police said in a news release. Both...
The economic and life disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some recent immigrants to leave Canada and return to their countries of origin, where they have more social and family connections. The number of permanent residents who have been in Canada for less than five years declined by...
New Brunswick will move the entire province to the yellow phase of recovery, effective midnight Sunday. “This is based on our continued positive trajectory of declining COVID-19 cases in these zones, and public health’s assessment of ongoing risk,” said N.B. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Jennifer Russell during Friday’s...