WATCH: Canada Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is pushing to bring in a record number of 351,000 new #PermanentResidents in 2021 - the most in a century. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not wanting to scale back on immigration even with closed borders, and record unemployment due to Covid19.
Dr Bonnie Henry confirms BC has its first case of COVID19 linked syndrome in children.
Henry says the key will be finding the right balance as cases surge while allowing people to carry out activities like going to work and school or holding elections.
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Chief electoral officer Anton Boegman says it involves measures to ensure safe voting procedures for people who want to cast ballots at polling stations and enhanced opportunities to vote by mail.
The federal Liberals are expected to lay out plans for child care, affordable housing and navigating the economic fallout of the pandemic as part of throne speech cast in the shadow of rising COVID-19 cases.
WATCH: US rejects a global vaccine sharing effort but Canada supports 'Vaccine for all.'
In 2019, appeals courts in Saskatchewan and Ontario determined the policy was constitutional, while in February of this year the Alberta Court of Appeal said it was not.
Officials in the U.S. say the letter sent to Washington, D.C., was intercepted at a mail sorting facility on Friday before it reached the White House.