Category Archives: Canada
No Canadians reported dead from Hurricane Melissa, Ottawa offers to help region
OTTAWA - No Canadians have been reported dead as a result of Hurricane Melissa making landfall in the Caribbean, the MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid said Wednesday. Randeep Sarai, secretary of stat...
Oct 29, 2025
Ahead of G7 meetings, energy minister announces funding for green tech projects
OTTAWA - Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson announced millions of dollars for clean tech projects on Wednesday, ahead of the G7 ministerial meetings in Toronto starting Thursday. Delivering the keyno...
Oct 29, 2025
Fact File: Video shared on X shows Maori haka dancer, not B.C. housing minister
A video was shared on social media this week by accounts claiming it shows B.C. Minister of Housing Christine Boyle dancing and lip-synching to audio of ritual chanting, wearing what appears to be Ind...
Oct 29, 2025
Drug crimes up for first time in 12 years, bucking long-term national trend: StatCan
Statistics Canada says the rate of police-reported drug crime is up for the first time in 12 years but remains well below a "historic peak" recorded in 2011, with cannabis legalization being a major f...
Oct 29, 2025
Melissa partly to blame for wet, windy Halloween in Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario
HALIFAX - Residents of the Maritimes, Quebec and southern Ontario can expect wet, blustery weather this weekend, but a senior meteorologist says Hurricane Melissa is only partly to blame. The latest f...
Oct 29, 2025
'Call 1-800-Doug-Ford': Ontario, N.B. courting Quebec doctors unhappy with pay law
MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...
Oct 29, 2025
Bank of Canada governor says AI could be both good and bad for Canada's economy
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada says it doesn't know how new artificial intelligence products will affect the Canadian economy. Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says the technology has the potential f...
Oct 29, 2025
Federal officials are not sure when immigration levels plan is coming
OTTAWA - Immigration department officials do not know if Prime Minister Mark Carney's promise to include Canada's new immigration plan in the federal budget next week will be the full scope of the ann...
Oct 29, 2025
Judge says $510M in fees for lawyers in treaty case was unreasonable
OTTAWA - An Ontario court judge has ruled a $510-million legal fee for lawyers who worked on a First Nations treaty rights case was unreasonable - and has ordered the fee scaled back to $23 million. "...
Oct 29, 2025
Budget to include funding for women, LGBTQ initiatives: Champagne
OTTAWA - The federal government says the upcoming budget will include new money to support women's participation in leadership roles and to provide security for LGBTQ communities during Pride events. ...
Oct 29, 2025