Experts point to two key reasons why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau might want an election as Canada's ascends into a fourth wave of the pandemic: the government’s minority status, and poll numbers that suggest a majority could be within their reach.
The federal government intends to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory across the federal public service, and will require that all commercial air, interprovincial train and cruise ship passengers be fully vaccinated no later than October.
Amid rising hospitalizations and case counts, Alberta is backing down from its plans to abandon COVID-19 testing and eliminate isolation and masking rules until late September.
Quebec is reporting 426 new COVID-19 infections on Friday -- the first time since May 29 that more than 400 daily cases have been recorded.
When CTVNews.ca asked Canadians who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 to share their reasons why, many cited concerns about the vaccines' development, potential side-effects, and pre-existing health concerns as reasons for their hesitancy.
The COVID-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories.
Canadians alarmed by this summer's extreme weather, including deadly record temperatures in British Columbia and forest fires that have burned towns and blanketed much of the country in smoke, should get used to conditions this bad or worse in the coming years, says a climate researcher from the University of Ottawa.
B.C. has recorded another 717 cases of COVID-19, marking the third day in a row surpassing 500 new infections.
For the second day in a row, Ontario is reporting more than 500 new cases of COVID-19 and most of the infections were found in unvaccinated individuals.
Police in Florida say a toddler found an unsecured, loaded handgun inside an apartment and fatally shot a woman while she was on a work-related video call.
Scientists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture say they've found the first so-called live murder hornet for the year.
Wildfires that ravaged Greece's Evia Island have destroyed forests used by beekeepers to produce unique-tasting honey.
Canadian special forces will deploy to Afghanistan where Canadian embassy staff in Kabul will be evacuated before closing, a source familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
Sources confirm to CTV News that Alberta is considering delaying its planned pandemic response shift.
Police in southwest England said six people were killed, including the suspected shooter, in the city of Plymouth Thursday in a 'serious firearms incident' that wasn't terror-related.
Jamie Spears has agreed to step down from his long time role as conservator of his daughter Britney Spears' estate, the pop star's attorney said on Thursday.
