Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced masks will mandatory in all indoor public places beginning on Saturday, Jul. 18. The new rule applies to anyone age 12 and older. Masks are recommended for younger people but it is not mandatory. There is also an exception for people who cannot wear a...
On the day the Ontario government announced Stage 3 of its reopening plan, the province’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. David Williams, said there could be a way for businesses excluded from the next stage of reopening to participate. Dr. Williams indicated any business is able to submit a...
Although the provincial government is not making masks mandatory, Alberta will make 20 million free masks available province-wide. They will be available at more than 700 partner restaurants. A&W, McDonald’s Canada, and Tim Hortons partner restaurants are handing out eight masks per person. Four million masks are being provided to 20...
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said the federal government is Apple from working with the province to resolve an issue with its existing contact tracing app. Currently, the ABTraceTogether app requires Apple users to have the app open on the phone the whole time to operate properly. “Unfortunately, the Government of Canada...
In its 26 years of existence, officers with Canada's largest Indigenous police force have never shot and killed anyone and no officer has died in the line of duty, despite a grinding lack of resources and an absence of normal accountability mechanisms. It's a record of which the Nishnawbe Aski...
Authorities say one man was killed and two other people were injured in a separate series of events in the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary. Canmore RCMP, along with Kananaskis Public Safety and Kananaskis Emergency Services, were called to an area near Mount Yamnuska for reports a hiker had fallen. The...
At a press conference in Woodbridge, Ont. on Friday, premier Doug Ford stressed he does not want Americans coming to Ontario for recreational purposes. “As long as the goods and products are flowing...not right now,” Ford said. “Come and visit us when things cool out and calm down.” The premier said...
A survey by the Alberta Medical Association suggests more than 40 per cent of the province’s physicians have at least considered looking for work elsewhere in Canada. The group blames the potential exodus on the United Conservative government’s announced changes to how doctors are paid. Some of the measures announced in...
A string of hostile incidents in Winnipeg, which included two cars with U.S. licence plates being keyed, has some United States Air Force members stationed in the city speaking out. As a partnership with the United States, somewhere between 10 and 100 American troops help out at the Canadian base...
Canada is an ocean nation with the longest coastline in the world. Canadians rely on healthy marine ecosystems to sustain our economy, our food supply, and our coastal communities. But the ocean is a shared resource that requires a global effort to ensure marine conservation. That is why...