N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Peace officers have more powers this weekend
CBC
Peace offers are being given extended powers this long weekend to clamp down on Thanksgiving gatherings in violation of the province's revised mandatory order.
Starting at 6 p.m. Friday, private gatherings can only include people in their household bubble plus one person who lives alone.
The restrictions were put in place to reduce the spread of COVID-19, as the province continues to see record new cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Under the revised order, peace officers can order a premise be vacated and can detain people under certain conditions.
Constitutional lawyer Lyle Skinner says the restrictions are justified but notes a draft version of the legislation posted online Thursday also applied to people's homes. It has since been changed.
Still, the fact some of the revisions to the order were made less than 12 hours before it came into effect is a concern, he said.
It's not a lot of time for peace officers and the public to get up to speed.
This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and CBC Saskatchewan.
More than 300 patients without housing have gone from Edmonton emergency rooms directly into transitional accommodation since the launch of a unique program in March 2023.
B.C. Ferries says it is replacing its principle model of community feedback, the ferry advisory committee (FAC), which has been the main way the ferry corporation has kept in touch with ferry-reliant communities for over three decades.
The inquest for six inmates at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre heard Tuesday that five of the men died overnight, one of several commonalities noted in testimony by a corrections consultant.
"Our bodies lie, but still we roam" is written on a wooden cross paying tribute to Paul Gilbert and Donna Whyte — the Windsor couple who were fatally hit by a vehicle on Walker Road last week.
In three years, the number of people who are homeless in Waterloo region has doubled a new report says.
P.E.I.'s minister of fisheries says the Maritime oyster industry has sustained another blow after evidence of a new disease was recently found in oysters from Spence Cove, about five kilometres west of the Confederation Bridge in New Brunswick.
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Canadian political leaders can't control the fact that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. Neither can they stop him from threatening to take illogical steps that could hurt American businesses and consumers almost as much as they would hurt Canadians.
A First Nation in southern Alberta is suing the federal government for $1 billion, the latest in a series of lawsuits which argue that annual payments promised in treaties should have been adjusted for inflation.
The oilpatch is reacting to Donald Trump's threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods with a mix of concern and skepticism.