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Sikh advocacy group says India blocked Canadian website to fund COVID-19 patients
April 30, 2021 - 3:12 PM

OTTAWA - A Sikh advocacy group says the government of India has blocked a Canadian website that aims to raise funds for COVID-19 patients abroad.
Canada eyes policy on travel from India due to massive COVID surge
April 22, 2021 - 5:45 AM

The federal government is looking into flights arriving from India due to a massive surge of COVID-19 cases ravaging that country, Canada's top public health doctor said Wednesday as at least one province urged Ottawa to tighten the border.
Emergency parliamentary debate on pandemic devolves into partisan finger-pointing
April 21, 2021 - 7:29 PM

OTTAWA - An emergency parliamentary debate that was supposed to be a forum for cross-party collaboration on better ways to combat the COVID-19 pandemic devolved Wednesday into another round of partisan finger-pointing.
Pfizer supply bolstered as Moderna cuts delivery, Ontario turns down Trudeau's help
April 16, 2021 - 5:33 PM

The federal government is buying more doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech as it moves to offset reduction in supply from another producer. And while it offered to help Ontario distribute its shots, the hot-spot province turned down that assistance as the premier piled on more restrictions on Friday.
'A next step': Humboldt planning $25M tribute centre to mark deadly Broncos bus crash
April 05, 2021 - 12:58 PM

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan city says it has a plan to permanently commemorate the deadly Broncos bus crash.
Canada's vaccine flood and North Vancouver tragedy: In The News for Mar. 29
March 29, 2021 - 2:09 AM

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Mar. 29 ...
Man, 28, charged with second-degree murder in North Vancouver stabbings
March 28, 2021 - 6:12 PM

VANCOUVER - Flowers and wreaths were laid Sunday near the scene of a stabbing rampage that left a young woman dead and injured six others in and around a library in North Vancouver, B.C., a day earlier.
Mining company Teck Coal fined $60M for contaminating B.C. rivers
March 26, 2021 - 5:13 PM

FERNIE, B.C. - A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries Act after pleading guilty to contaminating waterways in southeastern British Columbia.
Supreme Court of Canada set to help settle snow-clearing squabble
March 24, 2021 - 8:18 AM

OTTAWA - It's starting to feel like spring for many Canadians, but the country's top court is about to wade into the issue of snow removal from wintry city streets.
Meng's judge questions thoroughness of alleged 'covert criminal investigation'
March 18, 2021 - 3:32 PM

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judgeaskedwhy border officers didn't question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou more rigorously if their exam was actually a covert criminal investigation, as her lawyers say.
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Canadian News

Sikh advocacy group says India blocked Canadian website to fund COVID-19 patients

Canada eyes policy on travel from India due to massive COVID surge

Emergency parliamentary debate on pandemic devolves into partisan finger-pointing

Pfizer supply bolstered as Moderna cuts delivery, Ontario turns down Trudeau's help

'A next step': Humboldt planning $25M tribute centre to mark deadly Broncos bus crash

Canada's vaccine flood and North Vancouver tragedy: In The News for Mar. 29

Man, 28, charged with second-degree murder in North Vancouver stabbings

Mining company Teck Coal fined $60M for contaminating B.C. rivers

Supreme Court of Canada set to help settle snow-clearing squabble

Meng's judge questions thoroughness of alleged 'covert criminal investigation'

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