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Canada Health Agency to review protocol for health workers and coronavirus
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.
Ottawa easing some speed restrictions put in place after Saskatchewan derailment
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.
PM Trudeau meets today with emergency response group about blockades
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.
Kenney blames "radical fringe groups"
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says protest blockades shutting down rail service across Canada are quickly creating a full-blown economic crisis.
Iranian minister to briefly join Canadian-hosted meeting
Iran's foreign minister is to make a brief appearance today, February 15, 2020, at a meeting hosted in Germany by Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne with counterparts from countries that lost citizens the Ukrainian jetliner crash near Tehran last month.
Trudeau says no plan to tell police to end blockades
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has no plans to order the RCMP to end the blockades of vital rail links across the country.
Anti-pipeline protests push Ottawa to set up meeting with chiefs
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller has offered to meet with three Indigenous leaders, saying their protests against a pipeline in northern British Columbia are a volatile situation.
Trump nominates new US ambassador to Canada
Aldona Z. Wos, a former Manhattan physician, Republican fundraiser and North Carolina lawmaker who once was George W. Bush's ambassador to Estonia, has been nominated by President Donald Trump as the next American emissary to Canada, the White House announced on Tuesday, February 11, 2020.
More Wuhan evacuees arrive in Canada
A second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from the quarantined region of Hubei, China, has landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton in southern Ontario.
There's a Canadian on Diamond Princess confirmed to have coronavirus
Princess Cruises says a Canadian is among an additional 66 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo.