Category Archives: Canada

Owners of pyrrhotite-damaged Quebec demand money from SNC-Lavalin settlement
MONTREAL - Owners of pyrrhotite-damaged homes in Quebec are eyeing the $280-million penalty SNC-Lavalin was recently ordered to pay for its fraudulent business dealings in Libya. Alain Gelinas, presid...
Dec 30, 2019

Montreal airport refuellers vote in favour of New Year's Day strike
The workers in charge of refuelling planes at Montreal's Trudeau and Mirabel airports could walk off the job on New Year's Day, threatening to disrupt the busy holiday travel season. The Internat...
Dec 30, 2019

Pilot shortage can't be addressed by existing programs, documents suggest
OTTAWA - Federal officials combing through skills training programs have concluded major changes are needed if they're to be used to address a shortage of airline pilots. A July briefing not...
Dec 30, 2019

Trudeau on climate and ultra-rare disease; In The News for Dec. 30
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 Dec. 30. What we are watching in Canada ... TO...
Dec 29, 2019

Mounties eyed Cold War candid camera scheme, declassified documents show
OTTAWA - Declassified records show RCMP intelligence officials devised a secret Cold War plan to use a hidden briefcase camera to photograph Communists and Soviet Bloc officials travelling t...
Dec 29, 2019

Man arrested in Alberta bank robbery where suspect allegedly fled on snowmobile
ALIX, Alta. - Police in central Alberta say they've made an arrest in a bank robbery where the suspect allegedly fled on a snowmobile. RCMP began investigating on Dec. 20 when they said a lone ma...
Dec 29, 2019

Service Canada told key to improving use, ease of online services is human touch
OTTAWA - An annual review of how well the government interacts with Canadians as they access federal benefits suggests more people would turn to online channels, if there was a human around to he...
Dec 29, 2019

'Civilization is at stake': Democrats versus Trump will be 2020's main event
WASHINGTON - If history is indeed written by the victors, the story of America's epic 2020 title fight will read either like a heroic Hollywood script or&n...
Dec 29, 2019

Montreal's horse-drawn carriage industry rides off into history, but not quietly
MONTREAL - It's the end of the line for King and Maximus, Marilyn and Maya, and the rest of the gentle draft horses that live in an aging stable in Montreal's Griffintown neighbour...
Dec 29, 2019

New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of car...
Dec 29, 2019