Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government is moving to shield "sensitive or potentially injurious information" from disclosure during a court challenge of its decision to return a turbine repaired in Montreal t...

YELLOWKNIFE - The 2022 wildfire season in the Northwest Territories is shaping up to be one of the most severe in the past five years. "We're well on our way to doubling our five-year average for area...

VANCOUVER - Optimism over an expected bumper season for wild British Columbia sockeye salmon has turned to distress, after a regulatory body's estimate of returns to the Fraser River dropped by nearly...

OTTAWA - Canada's longstanding resistance to NATO involvement in the Arctic appears to be thawing amidst warming temperatures and a coinciding increase in Russian and Chinese activity in the region. P...

OTTAWA - A constitutional rights group has launched a legal challenge of a federal requirement that travellers to Canada use the ArriveCan app. The action was filed in Federal Court by the Justice Cen...

MONTREAL - Quebec's governing Coalition Avenir Qubec party has raised more than $928,500 so far in 2022, nearly $300,000 more than its nearest rival, the Parti Qubcois. According to the most recent le...

VANCOUVER - BC Housing says 40 people in Vancouver who were living in a Downtown Eastside street encampment being cleared by city workers have accepted offers of accommodation. The agency's vice-presi...

OTTAWA - The chairman of the company behind one of the biggest proposed green hydrogen projects in Atlantic Canada says a three-year time frame to start shipping the fuel to Germany is feasible if eve...

MONTREAL - Quebec's public health director says a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine targeting both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant should be available in less than two weeks. Dr. Luc B...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his department is going on a hiring spree to bring 1,250 new employees on board by the end of the fall to tackle massive backlogs in processing applicati...