Canada

A large majority of Canadians believe a governor-general who resigns before the end of their term should be entitled to neither their pension nor allowance related to their former position as viceroy, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News. The poll also found that while...

A man who savagely beat a teen with a baseball bat has been ordered by a judge to pay $6.9 million following civil court proceedings. In the early hours of June 19, 2016, Kristopher Teichrieb saw Jessie Simpson, 18, in the yard of his Kamloops home and had a confrontation...

The spouse of the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia told police that on the night he began his rampage she was beaten and shot at, and she begged for her life before she managed to escape. Newly released court documents also say the assault of Lisa Banfield...

Manitoba has reached a milestone with its COVID-19 vaccine rollout. According to Dr. Joss Reimer with Manitoba's Vaccine Implementation Task Force, our province has now administered more than 50,000 doses of vaccine. As of Wednesday, there have been 33,930 first doses given and 16,624-second doses. To put that into perspective,...

Health officials in New Brunswick reported two new cases of COVID-19 Thursday and one more COVID-19-related death. A person in their 80s died Thursday morning at the Villa des Jardins long-term care home in Edmundston, in the northwest of the province, chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell told...

There are three more deaths and 90 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba on Thursday as the test positivity rate drops below five per cent in the province for the first time since Oct. 21. The total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the province is now 862....

Public Health Ontario has reported 945 new cases of COVID-19 today (Feb. 11), which is the lowest daily report since Oct. 30. However, today's update notes Toronto Public Health case counts are under-reported today. Today's report includes 18 new deaths, nine were residents at long-term care homes. The deaths reported today...

The Ontario government has said it will postpone March Break for students and teachers for a month. Education Minister Stephen Lecce made the announcement at Queen’s Park on Thursday afternoon alongside Minister of Health Christine Elliott and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. David Williams. The week-long break, which was originally...

As COVID-19 variants begin to snake their way through Quebec, experts say the speed at which they are detected is critical to mitigate their spread. “There could be significantly more variants circulating in Quebec than we think,” said Dr. Benoît Mâsse, an epidemiologist and professor of public health at l’Université...

One person is dead and more than 30 others were injured after a crash involving several vehicles on the Coquihalla Highway east of Hope, B.C. RCMP said the collision happened just after 9:30 a.m. PT, about five kilometres north of the Highway 3 turnoff. The highway reopened about 12 hours later,...