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A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 21, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 21, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Sunday Feb. 21, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 49,707 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,451,846 doses given.
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A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 20, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Feb. 20, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday Feb. 20, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 49,707 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,451,846 doses given.
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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Feb. 20, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Feb. 20, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday Feb. 20, 2021. There are 843,301 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 843,301 confirmed cases (31,830 active, 789,841 resolved, 21,630 deaths).
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Supreme Court agrees to hear case on how Jordan ruling applies to second trials

Supreme Court agrees to hear case on how Jordan ruling applies to second trials

MONTREAL — The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case that could establish how the so-called Jordan ruling applies to cases where a new trial is ordered.
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Chinese ambassador denounces pending vote by Canadian MPs on Uighur genocide

Chinese ambassador denounces pending vote by Canadian MPs on Uighur genocide

OTTAWA — China's envoy to Canada is telling Canadian parliamentarians to butt out of his country's internal affairs through their pending vote on declaring a genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province.
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Tam urges need to maintain individual COVID-19 precautions as variant cases mount

Tam urges need to maintain individual COVID-19 precautions as variant cases mount

Public health officials have identified upwards of 700 cases of contagious COVID-19 variants across Canada, the nation's top doctor said Saturday, a finding she said lends new urgency to her calls to maintain personal COVID-19 precautions.
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B.C. health officials call for 'culturally safe' vaccination plan for Metis residents

B.C. health officials call for 'culturally safe' vaccination plan for Metis residents

VICTORIA — Health officials in British Columbia say they're working on making the COVID-19 vaccine rollout a "culturally safe experience" for Indigenous Peoples in a health system that has been criticized for its systemic racism.
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Trudeau to hold first meeting with new U.S. President Biden virtually on Tuesday

Trudeau to hold first meeting with new U.S. President Biden virtually on Tuesday

OTTAWA — The first face-to-face meeting between Canada's Prime Minister and the newly minted U.S.
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Deep freeze, power crisis enveloping Texas sparks fresh climate-change falsehoods

Deep freeze, power crisis enveloping Texas sparks fresh climate-change falsehoods

WASHINGTON — The catastrophic cold snap that paralyzed the electrical grid in Texas has opened up a new front in the age-old battle between green-energy champions and their fossil-fuel rivals.
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Nova Scotia mass shooter's spouse worried he was looking for her when killings began

Nova Scotia mass shooter's spouse worried he was looking for her when killings began

HALIFAX — The spouse of the gunman who killed 22 people in Nova Scotia last April told police that she has had guilty feelings and wonders whether others died because she ran away from her partner when his rampage began.
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