Category Archives: Canada

Food items that got more expensive in August, and which ones saw prices go down
OTTAWA - Inflation has come down from its highs, and groceries are no exception. Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday that grocery prices in August rose 2.4 per cent from the year before, a far cry f...
Sep 17, 2024

StatCan looks to improve the way it tracks wireless plan pricing with new data
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada has changed the way it tracks the price of wireless plans in an effort to capture a more accurate picture of what Canadians are paying when it calculates the inflation rate....
Sep 17, 2024

Health Canada approves updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine that protects against currently circulating variants of the virus. The mRNA vaccine, called Spikevax, has been reformulated to...
Sep 17, 2024

Trudeau returns to Parliament after loss of second Liberal stronghold
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face his cabinet this morning, just hours after the Liberals lost a second stronghold in a byelection in Montreal Monday night. The cabinet will gather for ...
Sep 17, 2024

In the news today: Bloc wins Montreal Liberal stronghold
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Bloc wins Montreal Liberal stronghold, NDP holds on to seat in Winnipeg byelection The Bloc Qubcois has won th...
Sep 17, 2024

MK-ULTRA: Ottawa, McGill seek to dismiss Montreal brainwashing experiment lawsuit
MONTREAL - Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and...
Sep 17, 2024

Statistics Canada to release August inflation figures today
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release its August consumer price index report this morning. Economists polled by Reuters are expecting the report to show prices rose 2.1 per cent from a year ago...
Sep 17, 2024

Foreign interference inquiry to hear from MPs, elections commissioner's office
OTTAWA - Liberal John McKay and Conservative Garnett Genuis are slated to appear today at a federal inquiry into foreign interference. Both members of Parliament serve with the Inter-Parliamentary All...
Sep 17, 2024

MPs to discuss deaths of First Nations people by police in emergency debate
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament will hold an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening on a string of recent deaths of First Nations people during interactions with Canadian police forces...
Sep 16, 2024

Quebec labour tribunal says nurses cannot pressure the province by refusing overtime
MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has stymied the latest negotiation tactic of a union representing most of the province's nurses. Fdration Interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec had threatened th...
Sep 16, 2024