Canadian News

Provinces announce new measures as Omicron fuels rise in COVID cases, hospitalizations

Provinces continue to take action to address swelling numbers

Jan 3, 2022 11:30 AM Read more >

Logging in watersheds among stressors for declining Pacific salmon, experts say

Clear-cuts have disrupted the landscape’s natural mechanisms for mitigating floods and landslides

Jan 3, 2022 7:30 AM Read more >

Alberta’s isolation period for COVID-19 cases drops from 10 days to five today

Change based on evidence that fully immunized people have shorter infectious periods

Jan 3, 2022 7:30 AM Read more >

Remote communities locking down, banning outsiders as COVID-19 spreads

Nunavut is discouraging all non-essential travel within the territory

Jan 2, 2022 3:45 PM Read more >

Climate change, new construction mean more ruinous fires

Tens of thousands of people were told to flee Colorado grassfires

Jan 2, 2022 3:30 PM Read more >

Feds, Indigenous leaders to announce child welfare compensation agreement Tuesday

Indigenous youth account for more than half the children under 15 in foster care

Jan 2, 2022 3:15 PM Read more >

U.S. Capitol rioters’ tears, remorse don’t spare them from jail

71 people have been sentenced for riot-related crimes

Jan 2, 2022 1:15 PM Read more >

Quebec government wants to bring an NHL team to the capital, but fans skeptical

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed a January meeting with ‘someone high up’ from Quebec

Jan 2, 2022 12:15 PM Read more >

2 missing; survivors count blessings after Colorado fire that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes

Wildfire came unusually late in the year, likely spurred on by little snow and strong winds

Jan 2, 2022 11:30 AM Read more >

Flushing out COVID spread: wastewater signals can be useful tool as testing declines

Many provinces are limiting PCR tests due to supply concerns

Jan 2, 2022 9:30 AM Read more >