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New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease

New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease

MONTREAL — A new clinic opened Monday in Montreal to treat patients and help researchers better understand two conditions with different origins but similar symptoms — long COVID and Lyme disease.
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B.C. teachers union says new contract puts teachers in 'top tier' in Canada

B.C. teachers union says new contract puts teachers in 'top tier' in Canada

VANCOUVER — A tentative contract has been reached for British Columbia's 49,000 public school teachers in a deal the union says would take them from near the bottom to the "top tier" of pay in Canada.
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Ukraine tracking thousands of war crimes despite judicial system woes: chief justice

Ukraine tracking thousands of war crimes despite judicial system woes: chief justice

OTTAWA — Violence in Ukraine has crippled the country's judicial system, the chief justice of its Supreme Court says, and left it struggling to handle tens of thousands of criminal reports arising from the war.
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B.C. offers doctors new pay model, including $135,000 raise, to target health crisis

B.C. offers doctors new pay model, including $135,000 raise, to target health crisis

VANCOUVER — Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system.
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Texts give insight into feds' communications strategy before 'Freedom Convoy' arrival

Texts give insight into feds' communications strategy before 'Freedom Convoy' arrival

OTTAWA — Newly released text messages show how the federal government was planning its communications strategy before the arrival of "Freedom Convoy" protesters in Ottawa back in late January.
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Canada sanctions Iranian police force, university as regime cracks down on protests

Canada sanctions Iranian police force, university as regime cracks down on protests

OTTAWA — Canada has added Iran's national police force and an Iranian international university to its sanctions list, even as Parliament calls for Tehran to be expelled from the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.
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Police divers recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday

Police divers recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday

MONTREAL — Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval found the body on Monday of a month-old infant who had been missing since the car his mother was driving crashed into a river Friday.
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What is the Emergencies Act, and what special powers did Ottawa invoke last winter?

What is the Emergencies Act, and what special powers did Ottawa invoke last winter?

OTTAWA — A massive public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the "Freedom Convoy" protests.
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'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway

'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway

EDMONTON — Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies to fulfil their legal duty and clean up old wells.
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Sloly Emergencies Act testimony continues, food costs survey: In The News for Oct. 31

Sloly Emergencies Act testimony continues, food costs survey: In The News for Oct. 31

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 31 ... What we are watching in Canada ...
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