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A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021

A look at COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 13,768 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,000,862 doses given.
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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. There are 789,651 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Canada: 789,651 confirmed cases (48,221 active, 721,075 resolved, 20,355 deaths).
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Accused in Edmonton hotel death pretended to be shocked by body in tub: Crown

Accused in Edmonton hotel death pretended to be shocked by body in tub: Crown

EDMONTON — A Crown prosecutor continued to look for inconsistencies Wednesday in multiple lies a man told investigators, colleagues and his family on the morning he found a woman's bloody body in his hotel room bathtub.
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Senate committee accepts assisted-dying bill but amendments still to come

Senate committee accepts assisted-dying bill but amendments still to come

OTTAWA — A bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying has emerged intact from a Senate committee but it's not likely to remain unscathed for long.
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'Dead letter:' Alberta premier defends coal policy change in Rocky Mountains

'Dead letter:' Alberta premier defends coal policy change in Rocky Mountains

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Albertans have no cause to worry over his government quietly throwing out a coal policy that protected the Rocky Mountains for more than four decades.
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Clearview AI broke Canadian privacy laws with facial recognition tool, watchdogs say

Clearview AI broke Canadian privacy laws with facial recognition tool, watchdogs say

OTTAWA — Privacy watchdogs say U.S. firm Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology resulted in mass surveillance of Canadians and violated federal and provincial laws governing personal information.
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Judge denies CSIS request to collect foreign intelligence

Judge denies CSIS request to collect foreign intelligence

OTTAWA — A court has put the brakes on a Canadian Security Intelligence Service request to collect foreign information, ruling a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service's legal mandate.
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Doctors offer duelling views of what it's like to receive an assisted death

Doctors offer duelling views of what it's like to receive an assisted death

OTTAWA — Senators have been presented with two starkly different descriptions of what it's like to receive medical assistance in dying in Canada: a beautiful, peaceful death or a painful end akin to drowning.
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Fear that delayed second COVID-19 vaccine dose could lead to new variants 'realistic'

Fear that delayed second COVID-19 vaccine dose could lead to new variants 'realistic'

MONTREAL — Experts say delaying the second dose of some COVID-19 vaccines could lead to the emergence of new variants of the virus — but there's no sign it has happened yet.
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Proud Boys and other extreme right-wing groups among 13 added to Canada's terror list

Proud Boys and other extreme right-wing groups among 13 added to Canada's terror list

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has added the Proud Boys and three other extreme right-wing groups to its list of terrorist organizations as it seeks to tackle the sort of neo-fascism and white nationalism that boiled over in the U.S. last month.
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