Category Archives: Canada

Rural B.C. officials receive 'gratitude' over landfill resolution before ostrich cull
NAKUSP - A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of t...
May 16, 2025

N.S. health minister admits 'growing pains' with new free-parking policy at hospitals
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue. At the big hospitals in Halifax, tensions are growing as unautho...
May 16, 2025

Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures
MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs fol...
May 16, 2025

Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, warns it's dangerous for Tories
OTTAWA - Former Conservative member of Parliament Stockwell Day says Alberta separatism poses a threat to the federal Conservative party - which risks seeing a return to the kind of vote-splitting tha...
May 16, 2025

Hockey Canada interviews among evidence excluded from ex-junior players' jury trial
Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but thos...
May 16, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Report says Lapu Lapu festival planning followed rules
VANCOUVER - A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and police into last month's Lapu Lapu Day festival attack says authorities are considering safety enhancements for outdoor events in light of...
May 16, 2025

NewsAlert: Canada Post report recommends phasing out daily door-to-door mail delivery
OTTAWA - The Industrial Inquiry Commission report on the labour dispute at Canada Post recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses, while daily delivery to ...
May 16, 2025

CRTC should equalize CanCon spending for streamers, broadcasters: Corus
OTTAWA - Corus is urging the CRTC to require traditional broadcasters and online players to pay the same amount into the Canadian content system. The broadcaster, which owns Global TV, says both shoul...
May 16, 2025

Clock starts on timing of byelection Poilievre hopes to use to return to Parliament
OTTAWA - The Conservatives know more today about when their leader could return to the House of Commons, now that Damien Kurek has been officially declared the member of Parliament for Battle River-Cr...
May 16, 2025

Concerns over protesters, man with smart glasses raised during hockey players' trial
The sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team will now continue with a judge alone after the jury was dismissed. The move comes after a juror sent a note to the ...
May 16, 2025