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About 7 in 10 Canadians plan to mark Remembrance Day: poll
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — A new survey suggests fewer Canadians were planning to observe Remembrance Day this year compared with 2024. The Leger poll says 69 per cent of respondents intended to mark the day this year in at least one way, including wearing a poppy or observing a moment of silence, down seven points from a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How Canada can regain its measles elimination status
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
TORONTO — Infectious disease experts say Canada’s loss of measles elimination status shows how badly investment is needed in public health, rebuilding vaccine confidence and solving the primary care crisis. On Monday, the Pan American Health Organization revoked the measles-free status Canada has had since 1998 because an outbreak of the virus across several provinces ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand pushes multilateralism as G7 foreign ministers set to meet in Niagara region
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
WASHINGTON — In a world shaken by volatile geopolitics and U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is making a push for multilateralism as Canada closes out its presidency of the Group of Seven countries. Anand is welcoming G7 foreign ministers to Ontario’s freshly snow-covered Niagara region Tuesday and Wednesday to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in coming years, one economist says, as the Ontario government calls for that to change. The Canada Health Transfer is projected to be $54.7 billion in 2025-26 and is set to grow by five per cent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario, feds agree to 1-year child-care extension; average fee to stay $19/day
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
TORONTO — Ontario has secured a one-year extension with the federal government for the national $10-a-day child-care program, giving parents reassurance their fees won’t rise for at least 12 more months, but with much hard work still to be done. The program that lowers parents’ child-care fees — now $19 a day on average in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!DFO investigating third whale death off B.C.’s coast within weeks
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
VICTORIA — An advocate for whales says many collisions between vessels and the animals are likely undetected or unreported as Fisheries Department investigates another death of a humpback whale off B.C.’s coast. Caitlin Birdsall, executive director of the Marine Education and Research Society, says the whale discovered Nov. 8 off Lasqueti Island in the Georgia ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Veterans Affairs minister ‘respects’ independence of court in poppy ban decision
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight says she respects the independence of Nova Scotia’s judiciary in determining judges have the right to ban the poppy from their courtrooms. Earlier this week, the heads of Nova Scotia’s supreme and provincial courts expressed their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Chief justice to stand in for Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on Remembrance Day due to illness
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is recovering in hospital from a respiratory virus, leaving her unable to preside over the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday, Rideau Hall said Monday. Chief Justice Richard Wagner will fill in for the King’s representative in Canada at the National War Memorial. It’s rare that the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!New website raises awareness about available cancer clinical trials
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
Canadians now have access to a public listing of active cancer clinical trials across the country, a resource that’s long existed in the United States and Europe. The Canadian Cancer Society announced the launch of a website called Cancer Trials Canada on Monday. The site is entirely bilingual and was created in collaboration with the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec premier lays out economic vision, warns economy headed for tough times
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
BEAUHARNOIS — Quebec Premier François Legault showed little interest on Monday to raising immigration levels, saying the way the economy is heading, the province will have more employees than job openings. He made the comments after he announced his economic vision for the province during an event at the Beauharnois hydropower generating station southwest of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Chief justice to stand in for Simon on Remembrance Day due to illness
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
OTTAWA — Rideau Hall says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is recovering in hospital from a respiratory virus, leaving her unable to preside over the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday. Chief Justice Richard Wagner will fill in for Simon at the National War Memorial. Rideau Hall did not specify the virus or say ... Read More »
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