Immigrants, especially female ones, who came to Canada as children are more likely to be enrolled in post-secondary education than the overall population, according to Statistics Canada.
The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to stop funding the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank given the ongoing detention and secret trials of two Canadians in China.
For the 11th month in a row, more than 100 people have died from an illicit drug overdose in B.C., the latest data from the province's coroner says.
India reported a new variant of the coronavirus, described by officials as a 'double mutant,' on Wednesday as it struggled with the highest single-day tally of new infections and deaths this year.
As vaccines start making their way around the world, many countries have seen their deaths due to COVID-19 decline. But Brazil is bucking the global trend and has seen an explosion in cases and death, leaving the country's ICU capacity at a breaking point.
Slow vaccine rollout and new variants could lead to a catastrophic third wave of COVID-19 infections across Canada, infectious disease specialist Dr. Abdu Sharkawy says.
Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Tindall and her husband, the former rugby player, Mike Tindall, are celebrating the birth of their third child, who was born at home on the bathroom floor after the couple were unable to get to a hospital in time.
The Ford government is continuing with increased healthcare spending and cash grants to businesses and parents as its pathway out of the pandemic will be paved with more than $100 billion in new debt and deficits that are not likely to end before 2029.
Many Indigenous communities are struggling to cope with dual states of emergency, thanks to the pandemic and its effects on those with mental illness and addictions.
Canadian businesses hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are calling on the federal government to extend emergency relief programs beyond the current deadline of June 5.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that while he is 'concerned' that COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to Canada from India and the EU may be held back to prioritize domestic immunization campaigns, there is no indication yet that this country's supply will be impacted.
The federal government says it does not believe COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Canada would be affected by export restrictions being considered by the European Union.
A skyscraper-sized container ship has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.
Adults over 50 living in COVID-19 hotspot neighbourhoods, various frontline workers, and those with a wide range of health conditions will soon qualify to receive a vaccine as Ontario prepares to roll out Phase 2 of its vaccine plan.
A Montreal woman whose two-year-old niece is languishing in a Syrian camp, after her father joined ISIS and was killed in a 2019 bombing, says the federal government needs to do more to repatriate its citizens detained in camps and prisons in the region.
