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COVID-19 vaccines are expected to arrive in Toronto midday Monday. Dr. Kevin Smith, president and CEO of the University Health Network, is overseeing next week’s vaccinations in Toronto. He says the first group that has been targeted to get the vaccine are long-term care facilities.

Dr. Supriya Sharma with Health Canada is at the centre of the vaccine approval process. She says it's now about the logistics and getting the COVID-19 vaccine out to the different sites in the country.

Canada's privacy watchdog said today he sees the federal government's new privacy legislation as an improvement on existing laws, but he has concerns about some aspects of the bill and will be looking for amendments.

The RCMP's inability to respond to access to information requests on time has reached a critical point and needs intervention, according to a scathing new report from the federal information commissioner.

"Leadership obviously matters, but there are lots of domestic pressures that he's going to be facing," Trudeau said. "Anyone expecting a sudden, massive, rapid shift to the way things were in some idealized past, I don't think anyone can meet those expectations."

Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin says the shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive on different flights and are being monitored every hour with UPS. Some shipments will be arriving Sunday night and the rest in the coming day or two.

As commemorations move online, amateur historians find novel ways to honour the fallen and reach new audiences.

The federal government is threatening to impose fines that could run to millions of dollars on private companies that violate Canadians' privacy.

The first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Canada on Sunday night, with more to follow on Monday, according to the military commander leading the national vaccine distribution effort.

The accuracy of political polling is being called into question again after the U.S. presidential election turned out to be closer than expected.

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will support businesses and workers if lockdowns are needed once again. Edmonton Mayor Don Iverson, chair of the Big City Mayors' Caucus, says Ottawa needs to consider municipalities' interests when funding the pandemic recovery in the upcoming fiscal update.

Quebecers will need to be more diligent about physical distancing and further reduce their contacts to avoid a rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, according to the latest projections by government-affiliated experts.

Justin Trudeau and Canada's top public health officials give an update on COVID-19.

The government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline says it has managed to keep its workforce COVID-free at a cost of more than $1 million.

After the Liberals unveiled their new climate plan, Conservative environment critic Dan Albas says a better balance is needed and provinces should have been more thoroughly consulted. NDP environment critic Laurel Collins says 'we're headed in the direction of strong carbon pricing,' but the plan itself is not adequate.

The Bank of Canada is winding down three emergency programs it set up to provide support to financial institutions during the early days of the pandemic, as demand for all three programs is falling now that things are getting back to normal.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is emptying out its detention centres and finding alternatives to keeping detainees behind bars until they can be processed.

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should immediately appoint a panel of expert scientists to help co-ordinate the national response to COVID-19 as the number of cases continues to rise.

The American CEO of Costco was granted a special exemption from Canada's mandatory 14-day COVID-19 quarantine to attend the openings of the grocery chain's newest outlets, a CBC News investigation has learned.

A lawyer who contributed $2,900 to Justice Minister David Lametti's Liberal nomination bid and riding association has received a judicial appointment.

Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand says the government is putting in place contracts to boost refrigeration capacity to store millions of vaccine doses.

One of the country's former top military commanders is helping to lead a push to honour some veterans of combat in the Afghanistan war with Canada's highest military honour the Victoria Cross.

Canada's foreign minister pledged support for top Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is in exile in Lithuania, during a meeting Friday.

As a child in the late 1940s, John Charlesworth would run through the military cemetery in Harrogate, a quiet, tidy community on the edge of the windswept dales of Yorkshire taking care to avoid the fresh mounds of earth that seemed to cover every English graveyard in those early post-war years.

A Toronto MP is leaving the Liberal caucus after CBC News found she had employed her sister in her constituency office for years using public funds a violation of parliamentary rules.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police pension plan discriminates against women and violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Supreme Court ruled in a divided decision released today.

The significance of this year's presidential election for U.S. climate policy came down to a basic difference between the two rivals. One candidate accepted the reality of climate change and wanted to do something about it. The other denied the threat and actively reversed attempts to combat it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that applying for the new Canada Recovery Benefit would be "simple" and that no Canadian would be left behind in the transition to a new pandemic benefit.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly called on the country's premiers and mayors today to "do the right thing" and impose restrictions to counter the recent rise in COVID-19 cases.

Two hours after WestJet announced on Wednesday that it was curtailing its flights to and from Atlantic Canada, an email went out to all MPs and senators from Liberal MP Chris Bittle, parliamentary secretary to Transport Minister Marc Garneau.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls on Canada's premiers and mayors to impose further COVID-19 restrictions as federal and health officials provide an update on the country's PPE, testing and vaccine development.

Cancelling the presidential permit on the Keystone XL pipeline is a policy change U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has vowed to make. James Rajotte, Alberta's senior representative to the U.S., hopes that the project continues to move forward, as it's currently underway and would help deliver Alberta crude to U.S. refineries.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the second wave of the coronavirus threatens to grow as daily case numbers continue to rise.

NBC has been criticized for hosting a town hall with U.S. President Donald Trump at the same time as Joe Biden is set to appear at a similar event on a different network.

As we await final results from the U.S. election, David Wilkins, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada says it could take a while, as this is the country's closest election in recent history.

Opposition MPs are ramping up efforts to revive their investigation into the WE Charity controversy.

The Liberal government is promising to spend more than a billion dollars to connect most Canadians to high-speed internet by 2026.

Politicians come and go, but powerful trade lobbies and the strategic need to constrain China remain

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed national standards for long-term care during a meeting with Canada’s premiers.

The federal government is prepared to offer small businesses rent and mortgage relief for October but that money won't actually get into the hands of business owners until November, says one prominent Canadian business group.

Rideau Hall has spent more than $110,000 in public money so far on legal representation in response to allegations of a toxic workplace and verbal harassment at the Governor General's office. Read more: www.cbc.ca/1.5762136