Category Archives: Canada
In The News for May 5 : A look at April's employment numbers
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 5 ... What we are watching in Canada ... S...
May 05, 2023
Leaders express disappointment with changes to Canadian North airline
YELLOWKNIFE - Northern leaders say they are disappointed with changes that allow Canadian North to increase prices and reduce flight service in remote communities, but the airline says it will be bett...
May 05, 2023
'The ship sank all over again': Families of victims in wreck recall Gordon Lightfoot
Darren Muljo was six years old when his teacher asked the students in his elementary school class to pick a song they wanted to learn to play. Muljo, now 52, chose the 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmu...
May 05, 2023
'We are in a crisis': Red Dress Day honoured as leaders say more work to be done
The head of the Native Women's Association of Canada says it's clear there's an ongoing emergency nearly four years after the final report into missing and murdered Indigenous woman and girls was rele...
May 05, 2023
Interior communities brace for weekend rain as floods forecasted in Okanagan
People in the British Columbia community of Grand Forks are hustling to get ahead of a deluge of melting snow and heavy rainfall after learning a costly lesson about flooding five years ago. The commu...
May 05, 2023
Robot vs. human: Saskatoon brewer goes head to head with ChatGPT-designed beer
SASKATOON - It may have been the greatest battle between robots and humans to ever take place inside a Saskatchewan brewery. The grain mash was masterful and the fermentation feisty as a brewer went h...
May 05, 2023
Feasibility study complete into search of Winnipeg landfill for women's remains
OTTAWA - The federal minister responsible for Crown-Indigenous relations says a study has been completed into whether it's possible for a Winnipeg-area landfill to be searched for the remains of two I...
May 04, 2023
Federal government reaches agreement with union representing 35,000 CRA workers
OTTAWA - A tentative deal has been reached between the Canada Revenue Agency and more than 35,000 workers.The Public Service Alliance of Canada says that the tentative deal includes wage increases of ...
May 04, 2023
MPs advise against military intervention in Haiti, but call for improved sanctions
OTTAWA - The House of Commons foreign-affairs committee is urging Ottawa not to send troops to clear out Haiti's violent gangs, but instead to beef up sanctions targeting that country's political and ...
May 04, 2023
Taxpayer watchdog tracking CRA efforts to collect on overpayment of COVID-19 benefits
OTTAWA - The office of Canada's Taxpayers' Ombudsperson says it is monitoring complaints from people who say they've continued to receive collection letters from the Canada Revenue Agency despite havi...
May 04, 2023