Category Archives: Canada
Employer confirms tentative contract with B.C.'s 49,000 public school teachers
VANCOUVER - A tentative contract agreement has been reached involving British Columbia's 49,000 public school teachers. The BC Public School Employers Association, which negotiates on behalf of the pr...
Oct 31, 2022
Texts show feds planning communications strategy before 'Freedom Convoy' arrival
Newly released text messages show how the federal government was planning its communications strategy before the arrival of "Freedom Convoy" protesters in Ottawa back in late January. Messages between...
Oct 31, 2022
What is the Emergencies Act, and what special powers did Ottawa invoke last winter?
OTTAWA - A massive public inquiry is underway to determine whether the federal government was justified in its invocation of the Emergencies Act last winter during the "Freedom Convoy" protests. The P...
Oct 31, 2022
New Montreal clinic will be part of Quebec network studying long COVID, Lyme disease
MONTREAL - A new clinic is opening today in Montreal that will treat patients who have either long COVID or Lyme disease. It is one of the 15 specialized facilities announced by the Quebec government ...
Oct 31, 2022
Police recover body of Quebec infant missing in river since car crash Friday
MONTREAL - Police in the Montreal suburb of Laval say they found the body today of a one-month-old infant missing in a river since Friday evening. The baby boy had disappeared when a vehicle with his ...
Oct 31, 2022
B.C. government offers new pay model for doctors to help health crisis
VANCOUVER - Family doctors in British Columbia are getting a significant raise under the province's new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health care system. The provin...
Oct 31, 2022
'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway
EDMONTON - Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies ...
Oct 31, 2022
Canada sanctions Iranian police force, university as regime cracks down on protests
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada is adding Iran's national police force and an Iranian international university to its sanctions list. The addition of Iran's Law Enforcement F...
Oct 31, 2022
Sloly Emergencies Act testimony continues, food costs survey: In The News for Oct. 31
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 Oct. 31 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Oct 31, 2022
Exiting B.C. Premier Horgan says he learned to listen, but fuse still burns bright
VICTORIA - John Horgan says some of the greatest lessons he learned while premier of British Columbia came from people considered political adversaries. He said he found ways to work with people of al...
Oct 31, 2022