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More than 18,000 people have been forced to leave, including those who kept our society running during the worst of COVID-19

RCMP and the Canadian Border Services Agency say they seized roughly $198 million worth of cocaine in early January at the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick.

Canada Border Service Agency works to help facilitate goods and people safely across the border, but they also find some weird stuff.

increase font size Union representing Canada border employees votes to strike The union that represents about 9,000 border service employees said its members may strike as soon as Aug. 6, 3 days before fully vaccinated U.S. citizens will be able to visit Canada without having to quarantine. Associated Press Share OTTAWA — The union that represents about 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency employees has voted in favor of striking, which could affect travel between Canada and the United Stat...

Danielle Edwards Part of Canadas land border with the United States is pictured closed at the Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., Tuesday, April 28, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward July 27, 2021 - 1:47 PM Canadians could be facing mail disruptions and slowdowns at the border with the United States next month after members of a union representing about 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency employees voted in favour of striking, jeopardizing the federa...

It could be the fall before consideration is given to removing travel restrictions at the Canada-US border. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam offered that potential end date to a Commons health committee last week. “I do think that Canada is probably on a good trajectory in terms of its epidemiologically and our own vaccination coverage. I do think that between now and moving towards the fall, we should expect some shift in that policy,” said Dr. Tam. The border has bee...

File photo It could be the fall before consideration is given to removing travel restrictions at the Canada-US border. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam offered that potential end date to a Commons health committee last week. “I do think that Canada is probably on a good trajectory in terms of its epidemiologically and our own vaccination coverage. I do think that between now and moving towards the fall, we should expect some shift in that policy,” said Dr. Tam. The bor...

iPolitics By Kady OMalley. Published on Apr 20, 2021 6:31am Border control was among the topics of the auditor generals report on pandemic preparedness. (Martin Regg Cohn/Toronto Star) Amid another round of surging COVID-19 cases across the country,  PUBLIC ACCOUNTS members will take a closer look at the initial efforts by the federal government to respond to the first wave of outbreaks last year, courtesy of a briefing session with Auditor General Karen Hogan on the findings of he...

With Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland poised to deliver her inaugural budget speech on Monday afternoon, the Star’s Heather Scoffield has a sneak peek of what to expect: an across-the-board extension of “all the main pandemic-support programs until the coming fall,” as well as “a completely new benefit that subsidizes employers for hiring more people, or increasing the hours their employees work.” In putting together what was once expected to be the first post-pandemic budget, Fre...

At committee: COVID second wave, Canada-China relations By Kady OMalley. Published on Mar 11, 2021 6:31am A sign on Parliament Hill points visitors to the House of Commons on Jan. 15. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Justice Minister David Lametti at JUSTICE (11 AM – 12 PM), Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough at HUMAN RESOURCES (3:30 – 4:30 PM), Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau at AGRICULTURE (3:30 – 4:30 PM) and Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef at S...