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Freeland hints at potential hotel quarantines for returning travellers

OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the federal government is "looking seriously" at tougher travel measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including mandatory hotel quarantines for air travellers returning from non-essential trips

Jan 25, 2021 2:23 PM Read more >

Suspected RCMP secrecy breach fallout upgraded to 'severe': newly released documents

OTTAWA — New documents show Canada’s cyberspy agency was so alarmed by the potential fallout from an alleged secrecy breach by a senior RCMP employee that it revised a damage assessment to “severe” from "high" in the days after his arrest.

Jan 25, 2021 2:08 PM Read more >

'#ScienceUpFirst:' Social media campaign targets COVID-19 misinformation with science

EDMONTON — Microsoft founder Bill Gates did not create the virus that causes COVID-19 and he is not forcing microchips into your body through vaccinations.

Jan 25, 2021 1:09 PM Read more >

Halifax volunteers latest group to erect tiny shelters for homeless living in tents

HALIFAX — A group of Halifax volunteers have become the latest Canadians to begin erecting tiny shelters for the homeless, with two wooden structures going up recently in a gentrifying section of the city's waterfront.

Jan 25, 2021 12:27 PM Read more >

Lynn Beyak, who defended 'good' of residential schools, retires early from the Senate

OTTAWA — Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak is leaving the upper chamber three years before her mandatory retirement and defiantly standing by her views on residential schools on her way out.

Jan 25, 2021 10:37 AM Read more >

NDP warns of long delays in equal pay for women in federal pay equity rules

OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats say new rules to close a gender wage gap in federally regulated workplaces will take too long to make a difference.

Jan 25, 2021 8:19 AM Read more >

Group: Pakistani Baloch dissident buried amid high security

QUETTA, Pakistan — A Pakistani dissident and woman rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was brought home and laid to rest in her home village in the southwestern Baluchistan province under tight security, activists said Monday.

Jan 25, 2021 2:50 AM Read more >

Parliament resumes and a COVID anniversary: In The News for Jan. 25

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 25 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

Jan 25, 2021 2:19 AM Read more >

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, Jan. 25, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday Jan. 25, 2021. There are 747,383 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 747,383 confirmed cases (63,668 active, 664,621 resolved, 19,094 deaths).

Jan 25, 2021 1:00 AM Read more >

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Jan. 25, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Monday Jan. 25, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 15,213 new vaccinations administered for a total of 816,451 doses given.