Category Archives: Canada
Canada Post presents union with 'framework' to reach deal as strike continues
Canada Post says it has presented the union representing some 55,000 striking postal workers with a framework to reach negotiated agreements. A statement issued Sunday says the framework includes prop...
Dec 01, 2024
Guilbeault disappointed as plastic treaty talks end with no deal
Canada's environment minister says he's disappointed that international negotiations over a treaty to end plastic pollution have ended without an agreement. Yet Minister Steven Guilbeault says he's st...
Dec 01, 2024
Quebec launches new health-care agency in bid to improve services
MONTREAL - A new Crown corporation officially has officially taken the reins of Quebec's health-care system as part of the provincial government's effort to reduce emergency room wait times and surger...
Dec 01, 2024
Poilievre calls for asylum seeker cap, border plan as U.S. tariff threat looms
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose s...
Dec 01, 2024
Quebec forest industry already under pressure amid Trump tariff threat: Legault
MONTREAL - Quebec's premier is raising concerns about the potential impact of the tariff proposed by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on the province's forest industry. Franois Legault says in a stat...
Dec 01, 2024
Ghana activists warn an anti-gay bill threatens the young democracy's institutions
ACCRA - Frank gets disturbing flashbacks every time he sees a police officer. As a staff member of the group LGBT+ Rights Ghana, he knew police could intimidate people for bribes, or say homophobic th...
Dec 01, 2024
First Métis group signs modern treaty with the federal government
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Mtis Federation President David Chartrand told a ceremony for a new treaty that recognizes his organization as the government for the Red River Mtis that the moment was 154 years i...
Nov 30, 2024
Potential unmarked graves identified at former residential school in central B.C.
The chief of a First Nation in central British Columbia says potential unmarked graves have been identified at the site of the former Lejac Indian Residential School after nearly two years of geophysi...
Nov 30, 2024
B.C. Métis Nation votes to withdraw immediately from Métis National Council
SURREY, B.C. - Members of the Mtis Nation British Columbia have voted to leave the national organization, the Mtis National Council, effective immediately. The vote was held virtually on Saturday duri...
Nov 30, 2024
Trump calls Florida meeting with Trudeau productive amid stiff tariff threat
President-elect Donald Trump called his meeting with Justin Trudeau productive and says the prime minister made a commitment to work with the United States to end the drug crisis amid the threat of st...
Nov 30, 2024