By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

A new wave of COVID-19 cases and rising hospitalizations ahead of an October election are creating fresh headaches for Quebec’s government, which says it has no plans to reintroduce mask mandates in the Canadian province despite calls by some doctors to do so.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Health authorities across Canada have cut the hours of hospital emergency departments and urgent care clinics in recent weeks, a move that in some cases may extend through the summer, due to a surge in patients and staff shortages.

By Anna Mehler Paperny, Jackie Botts and Kayla Tarnowski – Reuters

Some Americans without access to safe local abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling are looking to the country’s northern and southern neighbors for access to reproductive care.

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil – Reuters

Canada’s federal government introduced a bill on Friday to hold some people criminally responsible if they harm someone else while extremely intoxicated.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

A man who plowed a rented van into dozens of people on a busy Toronto street in 2018, killing 11, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.

By Allison Lampert and Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Quebec’s plans to attract more French-speaking newcomers are unnerving some business owners who say they need immigrants from varied backgrounds to address a tight labor market in the Canadian province.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

A larger-than-life politician, Ontario premier Doug Ford beat back criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic to win a second term for his party on Thursday, but he faces an affordability crisis and a strained health system.

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Fergal Smith – Reuters

Ontario premier Doug Ford will have a long list of promises to fulfill after voters handed his Progressive Conservatives a second term in Canada’s most populous province, even as he cuts taxes and fees, bringing in less revenue.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

Canada’s federal government introduced a bill on Thursday to establish an oversight body for its border police and its national police service after two previous bills died when Parliament was dissolved.

By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters

The agreement under which Canada turns back asylum-seekers crossing from the United States has adequate safety valves, and the U.S. asylum system has sufficient safeguards, to make the pact constitutional in Canada, the federal government argued in court documents filed with Canada’s Supreme Court on Wednesday.