Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume t...

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante is pleading for patience and urging caution as the city's snow removal trucks and plows struggle to clear the record-shattering snowfall that has blanketed Mont...

LYTTON, B.C. - The federal government is promising more than $25 million to help build a new "community hub" in the Village of Lytton years after much of the B.C. town was wiped out by fire. A stateme...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is vowing to split the federal budget between capital and operating spending, and to balance the operating side while running small capital deficits. ...

MONTREAL - Bold plans and promises for high-speed rail lines in Canada stretch as far back as Pierre Trudeau's government. So far, none have come to pass. Some two dozen studies, market assessments, s...

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has dismissed the appeal of an Alberta man convicted of manslaughter for aiding his son in the killings of two Mtis hunters. Roger and Anthony Bilodeau confronted Maurice C...

OTTAWA - The federal government has confirmed that small businesses will have to pay tax on their carbon rebate, despite government promises otherwise, because Parliament can't currently pass legislat...

Climate advocacy groups are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robus...

A lawyer for three British Columbia RCMP officers facing dismissal over alleged racist group chats says a conduct board panel should be replaced over "real or perceived" bias against the officers. Wes...

QUBEC - The Quebec government has tabled a new bill to limit the duration of strikes and lockouts. Tabled today by Labour Minister Jean Boulet, the bill aims to protect services required to maintain "...