Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she is concerned that vaccination rates among younger Canadians aren't high enough. The number of people lining up for their first dose plumme...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampede is back and kicked off Friday morning with the usual array of floats, bands, horses and dignitaries. But the first parade since the COVID-19 pandemic was missing one mai...

MONTREAL - The Crown has dropped its fraud case against a former construction tycoon in Quebec and four co-accused following a nine-year legal battle. Prosecutor Franois Blanchette told a Quebec court...

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is ordering most trains in the vicinity of Lytton, B.C., to halt as residents return temporarily to the wildfire-scorched community. Alghabra says the Canadia...

WASHINGTON - Canada's border agents are bracing for a spike in would-be travellers trying to enter the country on the first full weekend since travel restrictions began to ease. The Canada Border Serv...

PRINCE GEORGE - No change in the unemployment rate for Prince George last month,remaining at 6.1 percent . BC 's jobless rate dropped to 6.6 percent last month ,from 7 percent the previous month . The...

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OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will say this morning how the job market fared in June after two months of job losses in April and May when companies shed staff during a third wave of lockdowns. The econom...

CALGARY - The rides are up, the stuffed animals are displayed at the games tables and concession booths are loaded with supplies. Forced by the pandemic to cancel last year for the first time in its h...

VANCOUVER - The chief of a British Columbia First Nation that won a landmark court case over development in its territory called on the provincial government to recognize the rights set out in the rul...