The Hong Kong Department of Health has banned direct flights from Vancouver operated by Air Canada for two weeks in response to COVID-19 cases. A statement posted to the department's website says health officials detected nearly 60 imported cases in the first two weeks of this month, including one passenger on an October 13th Air Canada flight from Vancouver. It says another passenger had failed to comply with disease prevention and control requirements, prompting officials to implement the ban, which will remain in effect until October 26th. Air Canada notes that its Toronto to Hong Kong fli

Saskatchewan is transferring six COVID-19 patients from its overcrowded intensive care units to Ontario hospitals. Some are arriving as soon as today. And Premier Scott Moe is asking the federal government to send help in the form of health-care workers able to work in intensive care settings. Moe says he appreciates any help Ottawa can provide and realizes that while it may not be a large number of staff, it will be a specialized contingent. Although Moe says more people are getting vaccinated since the province announced a new proof of vaccination or proof of negative test requirement.

U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion. Police say the group was snatched by the 400 Mawozo gang on Saturday. As authorities seek the release of the group, local unions and other organizations expect to launch a strike Monday to protest Haiti's worsening lack of security. The Western Hemisphere's poorest nation is again struggling with a spike in gang-related kidnappings and other crimes. The kidnapping of the

U.S. officials are working with Haitian authorities to try to secure the release of 12 adults and five children with a U.S.-based missionary group who were abducted by a gang notorious for killings, kidnappings and extortion. Police say the group was snatched by the 400 Mawozo gang on Saturday. As authorities seek the release of the group, local unions and other organizations expect to launch a strike Monday to protest Haiti's worsening lack of security. The Western Hemisphere's poorest nation is again struggling with a spike in gang-related kidnappings and other crimes. The kidnapping of the

Saskatchewan is transferring six COVID-19 patients from its overcrowded intensive care units to Ontario hospitals. Some are arriving as soon as today. And Premier Scott Moe is asking the federal government to send help in the form of health-care workers able to work in intensive care settings. Moe says he appreciates any help Ottawa can provide and realizes that while it may not be a large number of staff, it will be a specialized contingent. Although Moe says more people are getting vaccinated since the province announced a new proof of vaccination or proof of negative test requirement.

The chief of B-C's Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations and residential school survivors will speak before Justin Trudeau gets his turn today.The prime minister is making his first visit to the community since it announced back in the spring that it had found some 200 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school.The First Nation issued several invitations to Trudeau to attend its event marking Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation but was outraged that he chose to go on vacation instead.

The Transportation Safety Board was scheduled to release the results of its investigation today into the "possible relation" between train activities and a wildfire this summer in Lytton, B.C.The fire raced through the town on June 30, killing two people and leaving few buildings undamaged, after a heat wave pushed the temperature up to a Canadian record of 49.6 C in Lytton.The safety board said in July that it sent investigators to the area to investigate any potential link to trains.Canadian Pacific Railway said in a statement in July that it found nothing to indicate that any of its trains

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday condemned the Centre's decision to extend the Border Security Force (BSF)'s jurisdiction over a wider area along the borders of three states and said that it is a "direct attack on federalism". Channi requested the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to immediately roll back this irrational decision. "I strongly condemn the GoI's unilateral decision to give additional powers to BSF within the 50 km belt running along the international borders, which is a direct attack on federalism. I urge the Union Home Minister @AmitShah to immediately rol

Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, on Thursday reached the site along with security forces. A total of eight people including three farmers had died in the violence in the Lakhimpur Kheri district on October 3. A Congress delegation on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding an independent judicial investigation by a Commission comprising of two sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India or the High Court.