By the end of July, Canada will have received 'over 68 million' doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday, resulting in more Canadians being able to receive their second doses earlier than expected.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau maintains that Canada will need to meet the COVID-19 vaccines target of 75 per cent of the total population with a first dose and 20 per cent with two doses before his government lifts border restrictions.
The national intelligence watchdog says Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken the law in disclosing personal information about Canadians.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voiced his support for Harjit Sajjan on Friday after opposition parties banded together in the House of Commons to censure the embattled defence minister. He used part of his opening statement during his first COVID-19 update in a week to tout Sajjan's previous service as a police and military officer before accusing the Conservatives of slandering the minister.
The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada is showing no sign he'll release unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest security laboratory - despite the prospect of being publicly shamed in the House of Commons for his refusal to turn them over.
Canadian Blood Services says it is making plans to submit an application to Health Canada by the end of 2021 to replace the blood ban with a sexual behaviour-based screening model for all donors.
The massive ongoing renovation of Parliament Hill, centred on revitalizing and reworking Centre Block as the crown jewel of Canadian democracy, is expected to take until at least 2030 and cost up to $5 billion to complete. On Thursday federal officials leading the renovation project released the final design, scope, and anticipated timelines for completing the project.
The judge poised to be the first person of colour on the Supreme Court of Canada says he experienced discrimination 'as a fact of daily life' while growing up. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominated Ontario Court of Appeal Justice Mahmud Jamal to the top court Thursday to replace retiring member Rosalie Abella.
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino has announced a new policy to help settle 500 refugees and their families in a news conference today.
The U.S. is gearing up to send one million additional doses of the Moderna vaccine to Canada at the same time calls mount on both sides of the border to ease travel and quarantine measures.
The federal minister in charge of affordable housing says he would like municipalities to reshape local rules to more quickly build units through the government's national housing strategy.
Erin O'Toole pulled Conservative MPs from a special national security committee Thursday, accusing the government of using it to cover up an incident that caused two scientists at Canada's highest security laboratory to be fired.
Under attack by her own party's executives, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul is doubling down in defiance of calls for her to step down or take steps to avoid facing an all-party vote on her leadership. 'This is a small group of councillors who will be departing within weeks as their terms end,' she told reporters Thursday morning.
Chief Justice Richard Wagner told CTV News Channel’s Power Play on Thursday that while most urgent matters have been dealt with, a trial backlog could be a challenge for the courts in the following years.
It's time for Canada to have a 'reckoning' about the RCMP, says the chair of a House of Commons committee that studied systemic racism in policing.
The federal government's made a lot of promises, including a flurry in the first six months of the pandemic. While some continue to make headlines, many others have hardly been spoken of since. CTVNews.ca examines what's become of those early pledges.
Canada's Chief Electoral Officer says that Elections Canada is ready to conduct a pandemic election should one be called at any time, without the need for the federal government to pass its COVID-19-focused elections law changes in Bill C-19.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during Pride month last June that he hoped to 'very soon' announce the elimination of the blood donation ban for gay men as well as some other folks in the LGBTQ2S+ community. A year later, the policy remains unchanged. Here's where things stand.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Agency of Canada was not adequately prepared to respond to the surging demand for essential personal protective equipment (PPE), after failing to address decades-long issues with managing Canada's stockpile of emergency supplies, according to the Auditor General.
When fully vaccinated Canadians might be able to safely resume international travel without quarantines, and whether Canada will only reopen its borders to vaccinated foreign nationals remain questions the federal government says it's not ready to answer.
The threatened reign of successor Annamie Paul is the most bizarre, messy and unfortunate political drama among many raging on Parliament Hill as MPs prepare for what sounds like an election campaign launch in late summer, Don Martin writes in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
Having Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin quit the Greens over Middle East political differences helped change the channel on a bad news day for the Liberal government, Don Martin writes in his latest column for CTVNews.ca.
Many Canadian politicians are oh-so-deserving of an electoral spanking for actions that introduced, spread, slowed and then revived COVID-19 across the country, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca, adding that with the third wave becoming a ripple, a road back to popularity and power has opened up for incumbent political leaders.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should focus his apologies on current political mistakes, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
For far too long in this pandemic, the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train wreck. Today, there’s reason to hope that the light is actually a way out of the darkness, writes Don Martin in his exclusive column for CTVNews.ca.
Having immunized 70 per cent of its eligible population with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Alberta will lift public health restrictions in two weeks, Premier Jason Kenney announced Friday.
Police are still searching for the driver of a vehicle that sped through a stop sign in Niagara Region last week and hit a bike being ridden by an 11-year-old child, knocking him to the ground before leaving the scene.
Manitoba RCMP said Eric Wildman, a suspect wanted in a homicide investigation, was arrested Friday morning in Ontario after police were allegedly met with gunfire.
More help is on the way for a First Nation gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Friday.
On June 1, NACI had said AstraZeneca recipients 'could' get Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna for their second shot if they wanted, but on Thursday it went further to say an mRNA vaccine was the 'preferred' choice.
A video, showing a Montreal police (SPVM) officer kneeling on a young Black man's neck, has sparked outrage and calls for an investigation by politicians.
A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor charges, but the man left the courthouse defiantly pledging to 'do it again' if faced with the same circumstances.
States across the country are scrambling to close their government offices Friday after U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
Gunmen abducted scores of children from a school in northwest Nigeria, the second kidnapping from a school in the country's north within a week, officials said.
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
A wild brown bear on the the loose all night in a city in northern Japan wounded four people, entered a military camp and disrupted flights at an airport Friday before being shot and killed by authorities.
Daredevil Alex Harvill died Thursday while practising for a world record motorcycle ramp jump, officials in Washington state said. He was 28 years old.
TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews three new movies this week: 'Luca,' 'The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard,' and 'Censor.'
The author of 'Fire and Fury,' the million-seller from 2018 that helped launched the wave of inside accounts of the Trump White House, will have a last take coming out next month.
Within days, China will reach a staggering 1 billion doses in its COVID-19 vaccination drive -- a scale and speed unrivalled by any other country in the world.
While health officials are warning most about the Delta variant, other coronavirus variants are also keeping scientists up at night.
Those looking to lose weight and reduce fat may have less success with intermittent fasting than with simply reducing their calorie intake, a small new study suggests.
By the end of July, Canada will have received 'over 68 million' doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday, resulting in more Canadians being able to receive their second doses earlier than expected.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau maintains that Canada will need to meet the COVID-19 vaccines target of 75 per cent of the total population with a first dose and 20 per cent with two doses before his government lifts border restrictions.
The national intelligence watchdog says Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken the law in disclosing personal information about Canadians.
The coelacanth -- a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times -- can live for 100 years, a new study found.
Armed with a search warrant, Italy's police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked room.
The first reported Asian giant hornet of 2021 in the United States was found dead near Seattle by a Washington state resident in early June.
A Belgian court ruled Friday that coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca had committed a 'serious breach' of its contract with the European Union amid a major legal battle over delivery obligations that has tarnished the company's image.
Wall Street is in a rush to get workers back in the office to bring back the face-to-face camaraderie, training and to negate security concerns
Canada's main stock index had its first losing week since early May and dropped below the 20,000-point milestone for the first time in two weeks as the prospect of early interest rate hikes rattled investors.
A federal judge on Friday said he won't allow an Arkansas man arrested after he was photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot to travel for a classic-car swap meet.
Canada's biggest food and drugstore retailer is expanding its loyalty program at Esso gas stations, allowing PC Optimum members to both earn and redeem points when they fuel up.
Ford's second-quarter outlook is improving, with large numbers of customers making reservations for four of its new vehicles.
Alexandr Kudlay and Viktoria Pustovitova, a Ukrainian couple who aimed to fix their relationship woes by handcuffing themselves to one another for four months, have broken up for good.
Couples eager to say 'I do' can kiss the single life goodbye at the newly opened Wolfville Wedding Chapel in Wolfville, N.S.
An individual who is remaining anonymous purchased a $5 painting from the Macher Mall last summer. It turns out the painting was done by famous musician and artist David Bowie and is now being auctioned off for more than $38,000.
Montreal Canadiens interim coach Dominique Ducharme has been sent home after testing positive for COVID-19.
All fully vaccinated players and staff can stop wearing masks in dugouts, bullpens and clubhouses under the latest change to Major League Baseball's coronavirus protocols.
Rod Brind'Amour never worried much about being able to reach a deal to remain coach of the Carolina Hurricanes.
