Less than half of Canada's promised vaccine donations delivered
Canada has delivered about one-quarter of the direct vaccine doses it has promised to help less wealthy countries and can't say when more doses will go out the door.
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Rowdy and maskless passengers filmed their party flight to Mexico — now they're stranded after airlines refuse return flight
Passengers who filmed themselves partying maskless aboard a chartered Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Mexico last week have become pariahs and now face being stranded after two more airlines announced on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, they will not fly them home to Canada.
Feds to ship large numbers of rapid tests to provinces this month
Federal officials are adding more COVID-19 rapid tests to Canada's arsenal as surging infections from the Omicron variant push some public sectors to the brink.
Tax on $1M+ homes could help solve housing affordability, inequality
An annual surtax on houses valued over $1 million could help reduce housing inequality and cool housing markets, a report says.
Capital Hill riot investigation will go deep, promises U.S. attorney general
The highest-ranking law enforcement official in the United States is vowing to leave no stone unturned in the ongoing investigation into the Capitol Hill riots a year ago.
Nova Scotians raise money to protect vital turtle habitat
Endangered turtles in Nova Scotia have secured some new habitat, thanks to a successful fundraising campaign over the holidays.
How fast-food chains could reduce their carbon footprint
“Not changing their menus makes everything else look like window dressing,” said Jennifer Molidor, a senior food campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity.
Alaskan village in a race with climate change for new school
The school in Napakiak is just 20 metres from the Kuskokwim River and it’s getting closer every year. Just two years ago, the buffer zone was 61 metres.
NDP MP pushes for hazard pay for supermarket workers facing risks from Omicron surge
The federal NDP critic for economic development has written to the heads of Canada's biggest supermarkets asking them to restore "pandemic pay," which was brought in after COVID-19 first struck but was then cancelled.
Quebec's secularism law is discriminatory: Antisemitism envoy Irwin Cotler
Canada's special envoy on combating antisemitism has sharply criticized as "discriminatory" Quebec's law banning teachers and some other public-sector employees from wearing religious symbols at work.
Indigenous child welfare settlement of $40 billion announced by Ottawa
Ottawa announced on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, it had secured agreements in principle to compensate First Nations children harmed by its underfunding of child welfare, revealing for the first time early details about what the historic arrangement will cover.
Investigation called for raucous Sunwing party flight to Mexico
Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra has asked Transport Canada to investigate reports of "unacceptable" behaviour on a recent Sunwing Airlines flight from Montreal to Cancun, Mexico.
Dairy quota ruling sides with U.S. over Canada
Dairy industry advocates and trade officials in the United States celebrated a rare win over Canada on on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, after a panel of arbitrators agreed that America's northern neighbour is denying U.S. producers their fair share of access to the Canadian market.
As prison COVID cases rise, calls are mounting for inmate release
Experts and advocates are calling for governments to release some inmates in provincial jails and federal prisons as outbreaks of COVID-19 driven by the infectious Omicron variant spread through the country's correctional facilities.
Canadian health care strained as COVID hospitalizations rise
Canadians in some parts of the country saw surgeries postponed, access to COVID-19 testing reduced and a return to classes delayed as provinces continued to struggle on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, with a sustained wave of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations.