Canada news

A recent ramping up of the United States's vaccine rollout has it vastly outpacing its northern neighbour, and some Canadians are wondering why distribution in their country is lagging so far behind.

Days after Canada pledged to make Facebook pay for news content amid an ongoing media battle with tech giants, a Winnipeg newspaper publisher is warning local news could be in trouble if the government doesn’t take bold action.

There was a small earthquake in northern New Brunswick early Sunday morning. According to Natural Resources Canada, a 2.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded in a wooded area just south of Mount Carleton Provincial Park at 4:23 a.m AT. 

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says he has full confidence that Canada’s provinces will be able handle the influx of COVID-19 vaccine doses arriving in the country in the weeks and months ahead.

When a massive winter storm struck Texas, Karen Christensen was glad she still had her winter clothes more than two decades after leaving Canada.

Darlene Nuqingaq's project has been awarded the $1 million Arctic Inspiration Prize to create a music education program that will have Inuit youth instructors and mentor Inuit youth musicians.

Bianca Andreescu's agent, Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy, has confirmed the Canadian tennis star's withdrawal from tournaments in Doha and Dubai following her recent second-round exit at the Australian Open.

The prime minister is expected to announce a new process this week to select a governor general to succeed Julie Payette, who resigned exactly a month ago in the wake of a workplace review that found she presided over a “toxic” and “poisoned” workplace.

Shirley Chan says she's made about six emergency calls to 911 over the years, each time requesting Vancouver's specialized Car 87 mental health team when her adult daughter was in crisis.

Ontario reported 1,087 new COVID-19 cases and 13 new deaths on Sunday. The province also reported there are more than 400 cases of variants of concern in Ontario.

Reece Okemaysim was only four years old when she told her mother that she wanted to be a girl. Up until then, Reece was raised as one of seven boys to their single mother, Rozanna Seeseequasis. Since then, Seeseequasis has embraced Reece as her daughter.

A northern Saskatchewan First Nation has blockaded a road and issued a cease-and-desist order against a Toronto uranium company. Birch Narrows Dene Nation officials say they took action after workers with Baselode Energy Corp. started surveying the band's traditional territory without consent.

Almost every province and territory in Canada is planning to use online portals for people to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines. Officials believe registering for a shot on the internet will be the most efficient process to manage a mass vaccination campaign, but experts say both website booking and call centres can be unfair to some people

As word spread that one royal baby was born and another is on the way, the actions of the parents and their apparent expectations around privacy provide insight into how life for those a little further down in the line of succession may evolve in a Royal Family that will have fewer working members.

The pandemic has stopped many classes from taking field trips and halted in-school visits, but some Canadian cultural institutions have revamped their educational programming to offer virtual experiences that are reaching students in their neighbourhoods and beyond.

As word spread that one royal baby was born and another is on the way, the actions of the parents and their apparent expectations around privacy provide insight into how life for those a little further down in the line of succession may evolve in a Royal Family that will have fewer working members.

In anticipation of future missions to the moon, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have launched the Deep Space Food Challenge to get innovators thinking about how to help astronauts grow their own food on long missions to deep space.

Long considered a tool to encourage patrons to return materials on time, in the past few years hundreds of public libraries have decided late fees do more harm than good by keeping away low-income and disadvantaged readers. 

Documents show frustration at an Edmonton cancer centre due to its exclusion from Alberta’s first phase of vaccinations.

More than 8,000 Indigenous people in First Nations communities in Northern Ontario have been vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the provincial health ministry.

China's envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country's internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province.

The province backpedalled on Twitter Friday evening, after a pandemic "self-care bingo card" posted to the account earlier in the day spurred frustration and anger.

A commercial airliner dropped debris in Colorado neighbourhoods during an emergency landing on Saturday. The plane landed safely at Denver International Airport and no injuries had been reported from the incident, police said.

Willie O'Ree is being honoured this week. Some NHL players are wearing special skates that picture his face, hockey number and inspirational words.