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Heath Canada adds warning of very rare, serious condition as potential side-effect

Heath Canada adds warning of very rare, serious condition as potential side-effect

OTTAWA — Health Canada is updating the label for the Oxford-AstraZeneca and COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccines to add capillary leak syndrome as a potential side-effect.
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Senate passes net-zero bill and budget bill before rising for summer break

Senate passes net-zero bill and budget bill before rising for summer break

OTTAWA — The Senate has passed a government bill to mandate the country reach net-zero emissions by 2050, doing so hours before the upper chamber was to rise for the summer and before a possible fall election.
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Report calls for public takeover of old oil and gas wells to fund their cleanup

Report calls for public takeover of old oil and gas wells to fund their cleanup

Most of Alberta's energy wells no longer hold enough oil and gas to pay for their cleanup and the public should take them over to ensure their remaining revenue funds remediation, a new report concludes.
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B.C. premier says 'extraordinary results' mean most restrictions being lifted

B.C. premier says 'extraordinary results' mean most restrictions being lifted

VICTORIA — British Columbia will move toward a return to normal life on Canada Day as the province removes most COVID-19 restrictions and allows outdoor gatherings of up to 5,000 people.
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Heat wave over Western Canada now linked to sudden deaths in Metro Vancouver: RCMP

Heat wave over Western Canada now linked to sudden deaths in Metro Vancouver: RCMP

Police say a sweltering heat wave that has settled over Western Canada for several days is believed to be a contributing factor in dozens of sudden-death calls they have responded to in Metro Vancouver. Cpl.
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Actions, not statements, needed to advance two-state solution in Middle East: expert

Actions, not statements, needed to advance two-state solution in Middle East: expert

OTTAWA — The Liberal government's statements about its commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are not enough to advance this outcome as real action is needed to push the parties in a positive direction, says an expert.
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Ottawa to close about 60 per cent of commercial salmon fisheries to conserve stocks

Ottawa to close about 60 per cent of commercial salmon fisheries to conserve stocks

VANCOUVER — The federal government says it will close several commercial Pacific salmon fisheries in British Columbia and Yukon beginning this season to conserve fish stocks that are on the "verge of collapse.
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Meng makes 'unusual' request for admission of HSBC evidence in extradition case

Meng makes 'unusual' request for admission of HSBC evidence in extradition case

VANCOUVER — Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou made what they said was an "unusual" request to admit new evidence in her extradition case Tuesday, but they argued the documents prove the United States has misled a Canadian court in its summary
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Lawyer for trucker guilty in woman's Edmonton hotel death calls for shorter sentence

Lawyer for trucker guilty in woman's Edmonton hotel death calls for shorter sentence

EDMONTON — The lawyer for an Ontario truck driver who killed a woman in his Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is asking that his client be sentenced to about half the time called for by the Crown.
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Ottawa adds another Alberta coal project to federal environmental assessment list

Ottawa adds another Alberta coal project to federal environmental assessment list

Environmental groups and First Nations say they are pleased the federal government is adding another proposed coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains to the list of projects it will review.
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