The parliamentary budget office says a one-time payment to people with disabilities this fall will cost the federal treasury $792 million.The majority of that amount will go to about 1.67 million people in payments of up to $600, which the Liberals say are aimed at offsetting any extra costs linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.The total cost should hit federal books this year, but the budget office warns there may be potential fiscal impacts in subsequent years.The first legislative push to provide the special payments failed in June when the minority Liberal government couldn't gain opposition s

There are 125,969 confirmed cases in Canada. Quebec: 61,803 confirmed (including 5,746 deaths, 54,850 resolved) Ontario: 41,607 confirmed (including 2,800 deaths, 37,748 resolved) Alberta: 13,083 confirmed (including 235 deaths, 11,714 resolved) British Columbia: 5,242 confirmed (including 203 deaths, 4,114 resolved) Saskatchewan: 1,601 confirmed (including 23 deaths, 1,490 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,080 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,011 resolved) Manitoba: 1,018 confirmed (including 13 deaths, 606 resolved) Newfoundland and Labrador: 268 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved) New Bru

British Columbia has two outbreaks of COVID-19 at health care facilities as officials reported 58 new cases across the province on Tuesday. They say the two outbreaks are in the Fraser Health region, one at Bear Creek Villa and the other at Langley Memorial Hospital. Health officials declared an outbreak at the hospital in Langley when a patient tested positive after being discharged Monday and noticed symptoms on returning home. Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin, Fraser Health's interim chief medical health officer, says they are working to identify how many people may have been exposed. She says the ho

The death of a police officer's wife in the Miami area is being considered an accident. 56 year old Clara Paulino climbed into the backseat of her husband's marked SUV Friday to find something and got trapped inside when the doors closed and the self-locking device engaged. She was trapped for about four hours on a hot afternoon as her husband slept after finishing a midnight shift. The SUV has a cage that separates the back seat from the front seat and has bars on the windows and doors that can only be opened from the outside.

The new leader of the federal Conservatives says while he isn't afraid to fight in a fall election, he wants to first try co-operating with the Liberal government to bring effective leadership to Canada during the pandemic. Erin O'Toole isn't saying if he will support Liberal's speech from the throne on September 23rd, which will lay out the government's post-pandemic plan and will be followed by a confidence vote. O'Toole says he wants to see the Trudeau government address western alienation. Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says as prime minister, he would lead a government that rebuilds th

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has made a ``limited reset'' of his cabinet to accommodate a renamed portfolio for jobs, the economy and innovation.Doug Schweitzer, who was justice minister, will hold the post, which Kenney says is a rebrand of the Economic Development, Trade and Tourism Ministry.Kenney says Schweitzer will work to implement Alberta's recently launched economic plan to help the province recover from the ``double whammy'' of low oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Conference Board of Canada is forecasting Alberta will be the most heavily hit province this year with an 11 per

A wildfire south of Penticton is dying down, allowing firefighting crews to move around its flanks as officials inspect the area to ensure it's safe for evacuees to return to their homes. The fire has scorched more than 20 square kilometres of land on the east side of Skaha Lake and destroyed one home since last week.The B-C Wildfire Service says the fire is now classified as rank one on a scale of six, which refers to smoldering ground fires with no open flames and white smoke that can be attacked by ground crews using hand tools, pumps and hoses. An evacuation alert was lifted for nearly 37

A new Statistics Canada survey suggests that while the vast majority of Canadians would get a COVID-19 vaccine if and when it becomes available, more than one in 10 likely would not.The survey comes as governments around the world are rushing to develop a vaccine for the illness that has infected more than 23 million people around the world, including 126,000 in Canada.Among the reasons respondents gave for not wanting the vaccine were concerns about its safety and potential side effects, while some said they did not trust vaccines in general.Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Ta

British Columbia's chief coroner says 175 people fatally overdosed in July, matching the same total in June as access to harm-reduction services such as a safer supply of drugs remains a challenge.Lisa Lapointe says a disruption in the typical supply of drugs due to border closures during the pandemic has led to the trafficking of substances with extreme concentrations of illicit fentanyl. July's death toll represents a 136 per cent increase over the 74 deaths during the same month last year. B.C. set a monthly overdose record in May, when 171 people died.Almost 6,000 people have fatally over