An annual survey looking at who Canadians trust most suggests the COVID-19 pandemic has given Canadians almost absolute trust in doctors, while trust in corporate leaders and the media has plummeted to all-time lows.
Expanded protections for endangered southern resident killer whales off British Columbia's coast focus on contaminants, noise, physical disturbances and accessibility of chinook salmon, the orca's primary prey.
The adequacy of federal emergency benefits to help Canadians weather the COVID-19 crisis is bound to come under scrutiny today, May 8, 2020, as the country gets the first real glimpse of the economic devastation wrought by the pandemic.
Conservative leadership hopeful Peter MacKay is calling for use of the Magnitsky Act if specific individuals in China can be identified as having suppressed information related to COVID-19
Governments that want to use smartphones to trace the movements of Canadians during the COVID-19 crisis should handle personal information with care, privacy watchdogs from across the country warned on Thursday, May 7, 2020, in a united call for caution.
Scores more people in Canada have succumbed to COVID-19, authorities reported on Thursday, May 7, 2020, as one of the country's major inter-city bus carriers announced it would be shutting down completely due to a precipitous drop in passengers caused by the pandemic.
Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta and the federal government will cost share a $42-million program to help farmers and ranchers deal with a backlog of cattle waiting to be processed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Janitors at long-term care facilities, those restocking food on store shelves, along with other low-wage employees who have made it possible for millions of Canadians to avoid contracting COVID-19 while getting the supplies and services they need, will soon be getting a raise.
Respiratory therapy students at Toronto’s Michener Institute were rushed through the final weeks of their education so they could join health-care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 is causing more discarded gloves and masks to end up in the trash. But with so much of the province shut down, overall waste levels haven’t gone up in Toronto like they did in Wuhan and France.
B.C. tourism operators being crushed by COVID-19 are hopeful but confused about how the critical summer season will unfold after the province unveiled its plan to reopen the economy on Wednesday.