The Public Health Agency of Canada says it will review its protocols for health-care workers after nurses' unions denounced the national guidelines set out for dealing with the novel coronavirus earlier this month.
As Indigenous-led, anti-pipeline protests have shut down rail service across much of the country, Quebec and Cree leaders announced on Monday, February 17, 2020, the first steps of a wide-ranging 30-year plan to further develop the province's northern territory together.
An upcoming meeting in British Columbia is emerging as the focal point for hopes of a speedy and peaceful end to the blockades that have disrupted rail and road traffic across large swaths of the country for more than a week.
As cabinet ministers broker urgent meetings over rail blockades in support of hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia, a series of negotiations over the Wet'suwet'en Nation's land rights have been quietly taking place for a year.
The competing demands of natural resource development, environmental protection and Indigenous reconciliation appear poised for a head-on crash — with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's minority government caught in the middle as Parliament resumes on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
Transport Minister Marc Garneau is easing speed restrictions placed on certain trains following a derailment in Saskatchewan earlier this month that spilled 1.2 million litres of crude oil and started a massive fire.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cancelled his planned trip to the Caribbean this week amid criticism over his government's handling of a series of anti-pipeline protests that have disrupted rail service in parts of Canada.
The prime minister is meeting with an emergency group today, February 17, 2020, to discuss anti-pipeline blockades that have shut down swaths of the country's train system.
Hours of talks between the federal government and representatives of the Mohawk First Nation ended with "modest progress" on Saturday, February 15, 2020, evening, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said as he left the meeting near a rail blockade that's shut down train service across much of Eastern Canada.
Canada is pushing for new international rules to protect civilian airliners flying near conflict zones, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, February 14, 2020, at an major security conference in Munich, Germany.