It took three cabinet ministers and a late-day news conference on the eve of an expected election to announce that maybe by early fall Canada will introduce its version of an international vaccine passport to allow Canadians to prove their vaccinatio...

Premier Doug Ford is giving the cold shoulder to a demand he meet with opposition parties pushing for mandatory vaccinations in health care and education workers and vaccination passports after cases of COVID-19 doubled in the last two weeks.

If the province rolls out a proof of immunization program, people will be far less likely to lay the blame solely at the feet of the unvaccinated if cases do surge.

Requiring proof of vaccination for certain activities would both protect public health and offer an incentive for people to get the jab, say business leaders and health experts who are calling for a provincewide strategy.

The U.S. is asking for more oil, which Alberta has taken as a slight after that country cancelled a massive pipeline project that would have helped buoy the province’s struggling oil and gas industry.

For people of colour, the realities of heading back to work in the office go beyond fears about COVID-19.

The U.S. is quick to condemn the 11-year sentence handed to Michael Spavor by China, but there’s little information about what negotiations consist of or how much reason for optimism there might be for the three Canadians held by Beijing.

Spavor and fellow Canadian Michael Kovrig have been imprisoned in China for two and a half years in what has been widely viewed as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in 2018.

An uncomfortable truth underlies the saga of detained Canadians Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor and Robert Schellenberg.

Premier Doug Ford’s government argues that the family tied to the alleged theft of $11 million in pandemic aid is using “fraudulently obtained funds” to bankroll their legal defence.

Meanwhile, The Quebec government says students returning to school in the coming weeks will be required to wear a procedural mask but not in the classroom.