Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Ontario Court of Appeal has affirmed the constitutionality of Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system. The system, laid out in the Canada Elections Act, sees the candidate who recei...

A potential strike looms as contract talks carry on between Air Canada and the union representing 10,000 of its flight attendants. The outcome of negotiations this week could be critical for summer tr...

A wildfire in the British Columbia Interior that forced a tactical evacuation of about 25 homes over the weekend is now declared as being held. The BC Wildfire Service says the classification means th...

SMALL POINT-ADAM'S COVE-BLACKHEAD-BROAD COVE - Newfoundland and Labrador's provincial fire duty officer says the largest of the province's out-of-control wildfires continues to gain ground, helped by ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Air Canada flight attendants picketing at airports Air Canada flight attendants are expected to picket at airp...

OTTAWA - Out of the many federal public servants who ran as candidates in the last federal election, only one was elected: Caroline Desrochers, the Liberal member of Parliament for Trois-Rivires, Que....

Scientists have captured the first detailed images of the meeting of two tectonic plates off the coast of northern British Columbia, an area they say has the potential to generate the largest "megathr...

MONTREAL - Voters are heading to the polls today for a closely watched Quebec byelection in which the leader of the provincial Conservative party is vying to win his first legislature seat. Conservati...

TORONTO - Air Canada flight attendants are expected to picket at airports in four major Canadian cities on Monday in what their union is calling a national day of action. The Canadian Union of Public ...

Another day of punishing heat and humidity is expected to hit Ontario, Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces. A heat warning from Environment Canada remains in effect for all of southern Ontario, str...