Manitoba's chief public health officer is making masks mandatory in indoor public spaces in Winnipeg as cases of COVID-19 continue to surge in the city.
Quebeckers were urged to stop socializing, Ontarians were barred from late-night pub-hopping, and the entire country was sternly warned of "critical" containment measures required in coming weeks as soaring COVID-19 case counts edged past 150,000 on Friday, September 25, 2020.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is disappointed that Sikh RCMP officers have been removed from front line policing during the pandemic because their religiously mandated facial hair makes it difficult to properly wear a face covering.
America's streets are again pulsing with anger and frustration, this time over the deadly police shooting of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor ⏤ and a survey suggests the racial reckoning appears more popular in Canada than in the United States.
The co-ordinated global actions inspired by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg were much smaller than last September's massive demonstrations due to constraints imposed by the pandemic, but participants say the need for them is more urgent than ever.
The federal government is "lining up advance deals" to buy rapid tests for COVID-19 so as soon as the technology is approved for use in Canada, it can be put to work, says Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says he plans to move quickly this fall to set legislated targets to cut Canada's greenhouse gas emissions that go even further than what has already been promised.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join Canada's top public health officers today, September 25, 2020, for their daily update on the worsening COVID-19 health crisis.
Progressive firebrand Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Americans to come to their country's rescue on Thursday, September 23, 2020, a call aimed at saving democracy from a U.S. president he's convinced is bent on destroying it.
A poll conducted by VICE News and several partners shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax.
The country’s economic recovery from COVID-19 depends on building a national early learning and child-care system that allows parents, particularly women, to get back to work, says Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, a national child-care advocacy organization
James Lawson catches fish. Fish that rarely feed the B.C. coast. He’s not alone: Roughly 85 per cent of seafood caught in the province is exported, yet B.C. fish harvesters can’t get their catch to local markets — and the provincial government is doing little to change that in plans to increase food security post-pandemic.
Young climate protesters say vague green ambition in the federal government’s throne speech has added further motivation as they prepare to take to the streets of Toronto and some 50 other Canadian cities and towns on Friday.