Canada clawed back 289,600 jobs in May as provincial governments began easing public health restrictions and businesses reopened, Statistics Canada said Friday. Still, the unemployment rate in May rose to 13.7 per cent, the highest level in more than four decades of comparable data.
The death of a Toronto woman who fell from her 24th-floor balcony while police were in her home has renewed calls for an overhaul of how society deals with people in mental health crises.
Nova Scotia RCMP say the gunman who killed 22 people in one of Canada's worst mass murders was an "injustice collector" whose personal grudges boiled over in rage.
Canada's top doctor says the country has been successful at slowing the spread of COVID-19 but is warning that relaxing public health restrictions too quickly or too soon could lead to a rampant resurgence of the disease.
A 19-year-old Surrey man has been charged on 8 criminal counts in connection to a car crash that killed a Simon Fraser University student and soccer player. Dilpreet Sandhu was charged on Monday with offences that include dangerous driving causing death, failing to stop at the scene of a crash, and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
The first leadership contest for the Green Party of Canada in 14 years is likely to end in October with an online announcement instead of a big party, former Leader Elizabeth May said Wednesday, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spare no big events.
