Canada

Quebec liquor store employees secure new collective agreement after 2-year fight

MONTREAL - Members of a union representing more than 5,000 Quebec liquor store employees have secured a new collective agreement, ending two years of negotiations with the province-owned company. The ...

Dec 07, 2024

Quebec Conservative Party leader hospitalized with heart problem

MONTREAL - Quebec Conservative Party leader ric Duhaime has been hospitalized with a heart problem. Duhaime says he suffered heart trouble Friday night and his spouse immediately brought him to hospit...

Dec 07, 2024

Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees

OTTAWA - The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada's beekeeping community. A federal judge...

Dec 07, 2024

Not just for your parents: Facebook's buy-and-sell platform drawing back millennials

HALIFAX - A historic 400-kilogram anchor that was dragged up from the ocean floor off Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland sits propped up against a tree in front of Tyler Stapleton's house. The two-metre-...

Victor Kaisar Dec 07, 2024

LGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them

NAIROBI - In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas with peanut sauce. Like m...

Dec 07, 2024

More cases of parasite causing deadly whirling disease in fish found in B.C. waters

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it has detected more cases of a parasite that Parks Canada describes as potentially devastating to young trout and salmon. The provincial Ministry of Wa...

Dec 06, 2024

As postal strike enters fourth week, pressure mounts for Ottawa to step in: experts

As the Canada Post strike drags into a fourth week, experts say there's growing pressure on the government to act as the business community's calls for intervention get louder. So far Ottawa has said ...

Dec 06, 2024

Quebec promises new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools

QUBEC - The Quebec government says it will table legislation to strengthen secularism in schools, following the latest in a series of reports about Muslim religious practices appearing in some of the ...

Dec 06, 2024

Manitoba premier says conservation officers to help patrol Canada-U.S. border

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to have conservation officers help patrol efforts along the Canada-United States border. Premier Wab Kinew says the officers would serve as extra eyes an...

Dec 06, 2024

Canada's housing crisis leads to more unsafe housing for victims of domestic violence

HALIFAX - Women's advocates say provincial and federal governments need to step up efforts to create housing for people escaping gender-based violence because too many women are forced to remain in un...

Dec 06, 2024