Category Archives: Canada

Poilievre to meet with caucus Sunday ahead of return of Parliament this week
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will gather with his caucus on Parliament Hill today as he prepares to make another push to topple the Liberal government as early as next week. The one-d...
Sep 15, 2024

B.C. victim's family furious at no-fault insurance regime in motor-vehicle death case
WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. - Family members say Annie Kong wanted nothing more than to gather with all her extended family under one roof at her West Vancouver home for Christmas 2022. "She was talking abou...
Sep 15, 2024

Air Canada, pilots reach tentative deal, averting strike
MONTREAL - Air Canada says it has reached a tentative agreement with the union representing more than 5,200 of its pilots. The news of a preliminary deal came just days ahead of a potential work stopp...
Sep 14, 2024

MPs to face new political realities on their return to Ottawa
OTTAWA - On Monday Parliamentarians will return to the familiar stone walls of West Block in Ottawa to find the political landscape has shifted significantly. When they last gathered in the capital th...
Sep 14, 2024

'Challenges every single muscle': Champion tree climber turns work into passion
WINNIPEG - Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day. But it is to Jordyn Dyck, who has turned her job as an arborist in...
Sep 14, 2024

Air Canada, pilots still far apart as strike notice deadline approaches
Labour talks between Air Canada and its pilots are approaching a midnight deadline, when either side could trigger the start of a shutdown for Canada's largest airline. After more than 14 months of ne...
Sep 14, 2024

B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...
Sep 13, 2024

Call for more Muslim professors: Quebec says anti-Islamophobia adviser must resign
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says Canada's special representative on combating Islamophobia must resign, after she sent a letter to college and university heads recommending the hiring of more Mus...
Sep 13, 2024

Telesat Lightspeed: Canada, Quebec give billions of dollars for satellite production
MONTREAL - The Canadian government has announced a loan of $2.14 billion to satellite operator Telesat, to help the company build its broadband satellite constellation. Quebec's government, meanwhile,...
Sep 13, 2024

Ontario's top court dismisses application for bail from Jacob Hoggard
TORONTO - A justice with Ontario's Appeal Court has dismissed an application for bail from Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard as he tries to appeal his sexual assault conviction at the country's top cour...
Sep 13, 2024