Skip to content

National News

No winning ticket for Tuesday's $41 million Lotto Max jackpot

No winning ticket for Tuesday's $41 million Lotto Max jackpot

TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for Tuesday's $41 million Lotto Max jackpot. That means the grand prize for the next draw on Nov. 12 will grow to an estimated $50 million, with two Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each. The Canadian Press
Read more >
Bolivia calls on Canada to waive patent and export COVID-19 vaccines

Bolivia calls on Canada to waive patent and export COVID-19 vaccines

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is facing mounting pressure to waive the patent on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to allow a Canadian manufacturer to export a low-cost version to Bolivia.
Read more >
Environment Canada confirms low-grade tornado hit Vancouver over the weekend

Environment Canada confirms low-grade tornado hit Vancouver over the weekend

VANCOUVER — Environment Canada says a tornado with wind speeds up to 110 kilometres per hour passed over the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on Saturday.
Read more >
Bank of Canada governor says central bank's role includes reducing inequality

Bank of Canada governor says central bank's role includes reducing inequality

OTTAWA — The governor of the Bank of Canada has laid down an argument for the central bank’s actions during the pandemic, hours after the country's opposition leader suggested the bank stay in its inflation-targeting lane.
Read more >
Logging truck collides with RCMP vehicles headed to enforce B.C. injunction

Logging truck collides with RCMP vehicles headed to enforce B.C. injunction

PORT RENFREW, B.C. — Mounties on southern Vancouver Island say three officers were hospitalized with injuries after a collision involving a logging truck Tuesday morning.
Read more >
Lawyer pans Conservative probe into national council member as 'fishing expedition'

Lawyer pans Conservative probe into national council member as 'fishing expedition'

OTTAWA — The lawyer for a member of the Conservative party's national council is calling a probe into his client's attempts to hasten a review of Erin O'Toole's leadership a "fishing expedition" to find out who else he was talking to about the effort
Read more >
Quebec religious symbols ban will apply to English schools until appeal decided

Quebec religious symbols ban will apply to English schools until appeal decided

MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal will not allow the English Montreal School Board to hire teachers who wear religious symbols while an appeal of a lower court decision on Quebec’s secularism law is being decided.
Read more >
No deal to support Liberals on table, but NDP's Singh 'open' to working with Trudeau

No deal to support Liberals on table, but NDP's Singh 'open' to working with Trudeau

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday a formal pact to prop up the minority Liberal government — including a coalition — is not on the table.
Read more >
Some patient, employee information accessed in N.L. cyberattack, government says

Some patient, employee information accessed in N.L. cyberattack, government says

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government revealed Tuesday that whoever was behind a cyberattack that has hobbled its health-care system managed to obtain personal information of patients and employees.
Read more >
More work to be done as Canada ranks sixth in global drug policy index: experts

More work to be done as Canada ranks sixth in global drug policy index: experts

CALGARY — Canada ranks sixth in the world's first drug policy index, but experts say its passing grade is nothing to be proud of as status quo policies are doing little to curb thousands of deaths yearly.
Read more >