OTTAWA — Expecting mothers who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 in March, and have since been unable to access emergency federal aid, will become eligible Friday for a key benefit — without jeopardizing their parental leave. The government is implementing a fix on May 8 so that pregnant women can finally receive the Canada […]
Peel Regional Police spent their Friday night investigating a report that there was an alligator in a storm drainage pond in Brampton, Ont. Though the idea of an animal that is only native to the southern U.S. and China somehow being loose in the Greater Toronto Area is bonkers enough, the story somehow gets both […]
SMITHERS, B.C. — Elected chiefs of a First Nation that’s split over a natural gas pipeline through their territory say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary chiefs backed the agreement. The elected chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nations say they don’t support the proposed memorandum of understanding […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Canada’s High Arctic may still be free of the novel coronavirus. A case of COVID-19 supposedly confirmed in the remote Nunavut community of Pond Inlet last week has turned out to be a false positive. “Huge relief,” said David Stockley, the hamlet’s chief administrative officer. “It answered a lot of prayers for a […]
The COVID-19 pandemic may have tempered a milestone chapter in Dutch-Canadian relationships, but it couldn’t trample over tradition. May 5th marks Liberation Day in the Netherlands. The celebration commemorates the day allied forces, including Canadian soldiers, liberated the Dutch from Nazi occupation in 1945. Since then, the Dutch have always taken the day to show […]
OTTAWA — Several provinces began to slowly loosen lockdown restrictions on Monday as Ottawa pledged $850 million for the international fight against COVID-19. Quebec, which accounts for more than half of Canada’s coronavirus cases, including deaths from the illness, is reopening retail stores outside Montreal while those in the Greater Montreal region are set to reopen on […]
TORONTO — Ontario’s premier is calling for a national strategy on contact tracing. Doug Ford says he spoke with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday about the matter and planned to make the case to his provincial counterparts this week. “We need a national plan for contact tracing. Right now each individual province is […]
When will the quarantine end in Canada? It’s a question on a lot of peoples’ minds as we tread through the second month of rigorous social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While measures across Canada aren’t technically a quarantine — that’s a technical term — it certainly feels like it to many Canadians. We’re […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, as the old saying goes. Migrant caravan workers attempting to seek asylum in the United States were met with tear gas by border patrol agents. New photos of the chaos show the migrants fleeing from large bouts of smoke. Some images even reveal young children fleeing while covering […]
LOS ANGELES, CA — A former University of Southern California gynecologist accused of sexual misconduct by hundreds of patients kept a storage unit full of homemade porn, including photographs that appear to have been taken of nude women in the exam room, it was reported Tuesday. The cache of nude photos were found in a […]