OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole took a shot at Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government management of pandemic restrictions Saturday while praising Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s less restrictive approach to managing the spread of COVID-19.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA—An outbreak of coronavirus has infected 33 inmates at a prison in Fairbanks, causing the facility to go into quarantine for 14 days, state officials said Saturday.
WASHINGTON—Those heading to Donald Trump’s rally at the Des Moines, IA airport on Wednesday were greeted by a billboard: “TRUMP COVID SUPERSPREADER EVENT,” it read, above a giant arrow pointing to the rally.
A Hamilton man is facing a slew of charges after Toronto police allegedly seized a semi-automatic gun following a string of events reportedly involving a carjacking, crash, shooting and break-and-enter.
MONTREAL—From a much-needed review of Canada’s foreign policy toward an increasingly aggressive China to a court-ordered rewrite of the medically assisted death framework and including the planting of at least one of the billions of trees promised to mitigate climate change, it is not hard these days to come up with a substantial list of unfinished federal business.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Three weeks since Ontario pharmacies started testing for COVID-19, doctors are questioning the costs of a “problematic” program they say was introduced with little transparency and ill-prepared to meet soaring demand.
About 45 minutes south of downtown Vancouver, the border community of Point Roberts, Wash., beckons urban dwellers with its no-Starbucks, no-traffic lights, small-town charm, not to mention its cheap gas, bargain real-estate prices and knockout sunsets.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Saturday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.
Premier Doug Ford ordered new public health restrictions in York Region on Friday, citing the area’s high rates of COVID-19 transmission relative to its population. But he made no commitments about four other regions that have also surpassed a concerning threshold set by the province’s pandemic science advisers.
As Air Canada heads into what will likely be its most difficult period in recent history, Calin Rovinescu, the CEO who oversaw not one, but two transformations for the airline, has announced his retirement.