Category Archives: Canada

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard on Tuesday tabled his sixth budget, with big spending increases for health and education. Here are some highlights. - Deficit of $11 billion, which includes a $1.5-...

The son of an 80-year-old Alberta man who died on Vancouver Island after helping a woman involved in a crash says it was in his dad's nature to help others before "tragedy took him." Ronald Hare of Ca...

RICHMOND - The City of Richmond in British Columbia is urging the federal government to provide more temporary housing for refugees and asylum seekers or pay for the use of city shelters, with the new...

Vancouver officials say dozens of homeless people staying in the city's only legal encampment have to temporarily move because the site has become unsafe and unhygienic. Deputy city manager Sandra Sin...

OTTAWA - Canada's Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements program, or DFAA, was launched in 1970, setting a formula for how provinces and territories would split costs with the federal government w...

VICTORIA - Penalties for commercial truck crashes into overpasses or other infrastructure in British Columbia are set to soar, including fines of up to $100,000 and jail sentences up to 18 months. The...

SASKATOON - An investigation into the statutory release of a man who went on a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan has released 14 recommendations for the Correctional Service of Canada and the parole bo...

SURREY, B.C. - City council in Surrey, B.C., says it is restricting public access to its meetings after persistent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters. Mayor Brenda Locke began Monday's meetin...

CALGARY - A Quebec-based electronic music artist hopes to get his career and life back on track after triumphing in an Alberta defamation lawsuit tied to social media posts accusing him of being a sex...

OTTAWA - The federal government estimates it will need to pay almost $3.4 billion for its share of the disaster recovery bills for flooding and landslides that devastated British Columbia's Fraser Val...