Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - Federal Transportation Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "dismayed" that BC Ferries has contracted a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels in the current geopolitical ...

CHILLIWACK - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has put up controls on the movements of birds around two commercial poultry farms experiencing the first outbreaks of virulent Newcastle disease in Can...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a stay, pausing the potential cull of nearly 400 ostriches at a B.C. farm. Court records show that a motion to pause plans for the cull, pending an app...

Geologists say it would have been impossible for Parks Canada to predict or prevent the massive rockfall that killed two people in Banff National Park on Thursday, with pressure building over many yea...

OTTAWA - A security and defence partnership pact Prime Minister Mark Carney will sign with European leaders in Brussels on Monday will be among the most wide-ranging agreements with a third country Eu...

OTTAWA - Music streamer Spotify says Canada's federal broadcast regulator shouldn't impose rules meant for radio on streaming services. Appearing before a CRTC hearing today, company representatives c...

MONTREAL - Via Rail has reached a tentative deal with the union representing 2,400 workers across the country. The deal averts a walkout involving members of Unifor, who had voted for a strike mandate...

OTTAWA - Canada's new disability benefit - a program that provides eligible people with up to $200 a month - is now open for applications. The program is available to people with disabilities between ...

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service says it closed 34 misconduct cases last year and concluded the allegations were founded in 33 of the cases. In its latest annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligenc...

SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD - The mother who allegedly abandoned her three-year-old daughter in rural Ontario for four days is scheduled to have a bail hearing early next month. Lawyers in Quebec court s...