The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says it is standing by its emergency recommendation to extend the delivery of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines up to four months.The panel's ``rapid'' response recommendation a month ago was followed by further research on the vaccines.NACI's experts say they still believe that extending the time to give a second dose will bring protection to Canadians more quickly.The panel says it expects the administration of second doses won't end up taking as long as four months based on Canada's expected vaccine supply.NACI, an external advisory body that

Montreal police say they will be investigating a video posted to social media that appears to show a man shooting an air pistol at a city mosque. The Centre Communautaire Islamique Assahaba in east-end Montreal posted a security video on its Facebook page this morning that it says shows an attack on the mosque Monday evening. The video shows a man wearing a hoodie and a blue medical-style mask firing a hand-held gun 11 times before running away. In the Facebook post, the mosque says windows were broken in the incident but no one was injured. The mosque did not immediately respond to a request

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government continues to seek justice for the victims of the 2020 shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people, many of them Canadian. Trudeau commented today after 10 officials were indicted in Iran over the downing of the jetliner. Ten officials have been indicted in Iran over the military shootdown, but the move has done nothing to quell Canadian demands for accountability. More than 100 of the 176 victims, at least one of whom was pregnant, had ties to Canada, and 55 were Canadian citizens.Conservative Opposition Leader Erin O'Toole

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is delivering the final instalment from billions of dollars announced last summer to help provinces and territories through the COVID-19 pandemic. He says the federal funding has been used to bolster the capacity of Canada's health-care systems, secure personal protective equipment for essential workers and protect the most vulnerable. It has also helped support child-care needs during the pandemic and keep municipalities and public transit operating. Trudeau now says $700 million, the final instalment from the Safe Restart Agreement,

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says this is an especially difficult day for a lot of people as we mark three years since the terrible bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team. Trudeau says we remember 16 people who were taken much too soon. A virtual tribute is planned for today to mark the third anniversary of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Sixteen people died and 13 were injured when a semi-trailer ran a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team's bus near Tisdale, Sask., on April 6, 2018. The service from St. Augustine Catholic Church is to be livestreamed on

A lawyer for Meng Wanzhou says payments between a Huawei subsidiary and an HSBC client that were cleared in American dollars do not give the United States jurisdiction to charge the executive. American authorities are seeking the extradition of the Huawei chief financial officer on fraud charges linked to a 2013 meeting in which they allege she lied to the bank about a subsidiary of her company. The subsidiary, Skycom, was doing business in Iran, which authorities allege put HSBC at risk of violating American sanctions, and they also point to payments that were cleared through the United Stat

Pfizer Canada says it will be asking Health Canada to amend the authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine to extend to children between 12 and 15 years old. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has already been approved for people as young as 16. The initial clinical trials didn't include younger adolescents, but a follow-up trial in 2,260 kids 12 to 15 in the U.S. has been running since the fall. The company released preliminary data from that trial Wednesday, saying none of the kids who got the vaccine developed a COVID-19 infection, compared to 18 infections among the kids who were given a placebo. Ex

The governments of Canada and Ontario say they will help fund construction of a new influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto.Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the federal government will spend $415 million in the partnership with Sanofi Pasteur Ltd.Champagne says the pandemic has taught all countries that they need to have domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity.Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will contribute $55 million to the project.Sanofi will provide more than $455 million as well as create and maintain 1,225 jobs in Canada.The company will als

Canada is staying in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for another year. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced this afternoon that Canada will keep up to 850 troops in Iraq and the surrounding region until next March. The extension comes only one day before the mission, which began in October 2014, was set to end. It also coincides with growing concerns about Iran's influence in Iraq, with Tehran backing numerous Shia militia groups. Those groups, which have largely displaced ISIL as the main threat in Iraq, have stepped up attacks on Western forces in recent month