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 Feb. 18...What we are watching in Canada ...A Montreal gerontologist says the decline of new COV...

VANCOUVER — It's been a little more than a year since scientists and biotech companies around the world pivoted to understanding, treating and preventing COVID-19. Here are five projects to watch led by experts in Canada:CanCOGeN. Led by Genome Ca...

OTTAWA — The federal government is expected to introduce today long-awaited reforms aimed at reducing the over-representation of Black, racialized and Indigenous people in Canada's criminal justice system.Legislation to be introduced by Justice Min...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 22,252 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,329,036 doses given. The provinces have administered doses a...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives are calling for the House of Commons to formally declare crimes against minority Muslims in China a genocide. They're tabling a motion in the House of Commons today, which calls on Canada to take the same stand against Ch...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.There are 834,182 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 834,182 confirmed cases (32,986 active, 779,761 resolved, 21,435 deaths).*The total case count i...

EDMONTON — Chris Herd plans to be in his living room in Edmonton today but his heart will be on Mars.The University of Alberta planetary geologist — one of a select team of scientists working with NASA — hopes to watch the successful touchdown ...

VANCOUVER — Canada is home to significant scientific expertise and research tackling COVID-19,though one expert says long-standing hurdles make it difficult for the country to punch above its weight in the global fight against the virus.Among the s...

OTTAWA — A United Nations rights advocate and Human Rights Watch Canada say the Trudeau government isn't living up to its new international campaign against arbitrary detention because it is abandoning 25 Canadian children trapped in northern Syria...

MONTREAL — In Montreal's Little Burgundy neighbourhood, where the city's English-speaking Black community is rooted, some locals are seeking to revive an institution that once served as a community hub.A citizens' group hopes to be able to rebuild ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia announced his resignation Thursday following a court ruling that ordered the arrest of a man who leads the ex-Soviet nation's top opposition party.Gakharia said in a statement he was steppi...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — RCMP in Fort McMurray, Alta., say they have arrested a man accused of threatening Conservative member of Parliament David Yurdiga.Police say they took action after receiving a complaint from the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms...

Researchers are cautiously celebrating the birth of a new addition to the endangered southern resident killer whale population. The Center for Whale Research in Washington said Wednesday a baby orca named L125 was added to the killer whale family. Th...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 22,252 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,329,036 doses given. The provinces have administered do...

Orca researchers are celebrating the arrival of a new calf to the family of endangered southern resident killer whales often found off B.C.’s coast. The Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbour, Washington, confirmed the birth Wednesday afte...

One of the capital region’s mass COVID-19 immunization clinics will be located at a Langford arena, Mayor Stew Young confirmed Wednesday.Young said health officials have secured the Eagle Ridge Community Centre’s dry floor arena at City Centre Pa...

The Cowichan Tribes has extended its shelter-in-place order to March 5 — two months after it was enacted Jan. 6 — as it reported two deaths related to COVID-19. In a letter posted on the Cowichan Tribes website, Chief William Seymour says the...

MISSION, B.C. — Fraser Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Mission Memorial Hospital after three patients tested positive for the virus.The health authority says in a news release that the outbreak is limited to the PATH and medicine units, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New legislation would ban all fracking in California by 2027, taking aim at the powerful oil and gas industry in the state already planning to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.Progressive California has long been a ...

DOVER, Del. — The judge presiding over the Boys Scout of America bankruptcy is weighing a request by insurance companies for permission to serve document requests on 1,400 people who have filed sexual abuse claims and to question scores of them und...