Colin Perkel

Reporter with The Canadian Press

131 Articles

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Class-action suit filed by northern Indigenous people against RCMP certified

A lawsuit alleging RCMP systematically brutalized Indigenous people in Northern Canada can proceed as a class action despite objections from the government, Federal Court ruled on Wednesday.

News | June 23rd 2021

Photo of passengers arriving at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport in 2006. Photo by Wikicommons/

Quarantines to ease for fully vaccinated travellers returning to Canada

News | June 9th 2021

A man and child walk into the Bill-Durnan COVID-19 vaccination site in Montreal, Monday, May 24, 2021. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Vaccinations put Canada on the path to reopening

More than half of all people in Canada have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as the country edges closer to lifting anti-pandemic restrictions, health authorities reported on Wednesday.

News | May 26th 2021

In this May 30, 2019 photo, a piping plover walks on the sand in Glen Haven, Mich. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP John Flesher

Ontario top court weighs in on endangered piping plover case

News | May 21st 2021

Pharmacist Barbara Violo arranges all the empty vials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines at the Junction Chemist during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, on Monday, April 19, 2021. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Will Canada's AstraZeneca stockpiles expire unused?

Impatience and a lack of clarity persisted Thursday over the fate of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine set to expire in the coming weeks.

News | May 20th 2021

An empty patio is seen on St. Patrick's Day in Gastown in downtown in Vancouver, on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

COVID restrictions tightened for St. Patrick's Day in some provinces

Officials in many Canadian provinces are tightening anti-pandemic restrictions to keep St. Patrick's Day from becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader event.

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