Canada

Union in B.C. port dispute seeks judicial review of federal back-to-work order

VANCOUVER - The union representing British Columbia port supervisors in a dispute with their employers has applied for a judicial review of federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon's decision last mon...

Dec 10, 2024

TikTok files legal challenge of federal government's shutdown order

OTTAWA - TikTok is challenging the federal government's order to shut down its operations in Canada. The company filed documents in Federal Court in Vancouver last Thursday. In November, Ottawa ordere...

Dec 10, 2024

Settlement in Quebec minor hockey coach abuse class action

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has approved a class action settlement that could provide as much as $10.25 million to victims who were sexually abused by a minor hockey coach in a Montreal suburb. F...

Dec 10, 2024

Ex-minister cites 'threat to security' for denying emergency passport to Abdelrazik

OTTAWA - Former foreign minister Lawrence Cannon says he denied an emergency passport to Abousfian Abdelrazik in 2009 because he considered the Montreal man a possible threat to national security. Can...

Dec 10, 2024

Former Just for Laughs employee testifies about alleged 1987 assault by Gilbert Rozon

MONTREAL - A second accuser is on the stand today at the civil trial involving allegations of sexual assault against former Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon. Guylaine Courcelles alleges that Rozo...

Dec 10, 2024

AFN says it's not prepared to implement chiefs' child welfare direction

OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations is warning it's not equipped to implement the direction it received from chiefs at two recent assemblies on child welfare reforms. Chiefs passed resolutions in O...

Dec 10, 2024

A look at Environment Canada's top 10 weather events for 2024

Environment Canada has released its annual list of top 10 weather events. Here's the list for 2024: - Arctic communities face unusual heat wave - Central Canada bears the brunt of the 2024 hurricane s...

Dec 10, 2024

Jasper wildfire, flooding, hail among top weather events of 2024: Environment Canada

A wildfire that left a third of a popular Rocky Mountain tourist town in ashes, remnants of a hurricane season that led to record-breaking rainfall and a hailstorm that grounded airplanes are among th...

Dec 10, 2024

Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.

VICTORIA - Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 ...

Dec 10, 2024

Premiers to meet with Trudeau Wednesday about trade and tariffs, Ford says

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the country's premiers are meeting virtually Wednesday with the prime minister to discuss the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. It comes two weeks af...

Dec 10, 2024