The Canadian Press CHARLOTTETOWN—A Charlottetown walk-in clinic is taking part in an innovative pilot project that dramatically could shorten the time Canadians spend in doctors’ waiting rooms. The clinic is testing a new online booking tool that uses just-in-time messaging, with initial results showing 90 percent of waits below 30 […]
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The Canadian PressLaura Kane VANCOUVER—Canada’s natural resources minister is promising a new relationship with First Nations on energy development and indigenous leaders are expressing cautious optimism about the new Liberal government’s tone. Jim Carr told a forum organized by the Assembly of First Nations yesterday that aboriginal peoples will be […]
The Canadian Press VICTORIA—An investigation by B.C.’s corner into the latest incident of a running shoe with a human foot washing ashore now is focused on a specific period of time. The coroner says in a news release that the runner first was sold in North America three years ago, […]
The Associated Press NEW DELHI—Scientists are analyzing a small blue object that plummeted from the sky and killed a man in southern India after authorities said it was a meteorite. The object slammed into the ground at an engineering college over the weekend, shattering a water cooler and sending splinters […]
The Canadian PressSteve Lambert WINNIPEG—Indigenous Affairs minister Carolyn Bennett met with the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women in Winnipeg yesterday and said she noticed a different tone from similar meetings in other cities. “Today we heard many things a little bit different than other places,” Bennett said halfway […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA—Facing higher-than-average unemployment and a growing threat of bankruptcy, post-secondary students are lobbying the federal government this month for billions in new spending to help cover the cost of university and college education. The largest organization for post-secondary students in Canada is calling on the federal […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—A military law expert says fallout from the lurid spectacle of the Jian Ghomeshi trial could make the Canadian military’s effort to stamp out sexual misconduct much harder. Retired colonel Michel Drapeau says the grilling the alleged victims received in the witness box almost certainly will give […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—An $18-million project to make it easier to sort through reams of data from the coming census has been beset by delays and uncertainty that the three-year project will be done on time. Called the “new dissemination model,” the project is designed to make it easier for […]
The Associated Press SEOUL—The U.N. Security Council yesterday strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket that world leaders denounced as a banned test of dangerous ballistic missile technology and another “intolerable provocation.” The U.N.’s most powerful body pledged to quickly adopt a new resolution with “significant” new sanctions. […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canada’s fighter jets will end their fight in Iraq and Syria within two weeks, and be replaced by what the Liberal government is calling an expanded mission focused on training local security forces and helping to rebuild the shattered region. Canadian bombs will stop falling by Feb. […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK U.S. health officials issued guidelines Friday to prevent the sexual transmission of the Zika virus, telling men who have been to outbreak areas to use condoms during sex with pregnant women. The guidance also suggests the men might consider abstaining or using […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA—The federal infrastructure minister says his government is willing to cut the strings on new infrastructure cash to help cities repair and build roads, bridges, sewers, and public transit facilities. The Liberal government has been under pressure from big-city mayors to loosen restrictions on promised infrastructure […]
