Category Archives: Canada
Montreal launches blitz to repair 'catastrophic' number of potholes plaguing roadways
MONTREAL - The City of Montreal says it's launching a blitz in the coming days to fill the numerous potholes that are plaguing the streets. Claude Pinard, chair of the city's executive committee, says...
Feb 05, 2026
Public servants ordered to work in-office 4 days a week starting in July
OTTAWA - The federal government is ordering public servants to be in the office at least four days a week starting this summer, with executives expected to return to the office full time in May. A Tre...
Feb 05, 2026
Budget bill 'unfair' for dismissing decades of overcharging veterans: watchdog
OTTAWA - Canada's veterans' watchdog is calling on MPs to remove a provision in the federal budget bill she said will paper over a technical mistake that led to veterans in long-term care being overch...
Feb 05, 2026
Alberta hockey players wear, share stickers memorializing car crash casualties
CALGARY - A group of young hockey players north of Calgary will be donning and distributing stickers made in memory of three junior hockey players who died in an Alberta highway crash earlier this wee...
Feb 05, 2026
British man who lived in Vancouver convicted in overdose deaths of U.S. servicemen
A British man who was living in Vancouver has been convicted in the United States after an RCMP investigation into a dark web drug trafficking network dubbed "Canada1" led to the overdose deaths of tw...
Feb 05, 2026
Labour board rejected challenge of unpaid leave for unvaccinated federal staff: union
OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union says the federal labour relations board has dismissed its policy grievances over Ottawa's decision to put unvaccinated employees on leave without ...
Feb 05, 2026
Canadian Inuit head to Greenland to show solidarity, attend consulate opening
NUUK - As Canada prepares to launch its new consulate in Greenland this week, dozens of Inuit from across the Canadian Arctic flew into the Danish territory's capital Nuuk on Thursday to show solidari...
Feb 05, 2026
Wife sobs as she recounts discovery of drowned kids at husband's murder trial
The mother of two children drowned by their father in a Laval, Que., home sobbed as she testified about the day they were discovered dead in the family home in October 2022. "I didn't know I would nev...
Feb 05, 2026
Alberta's Smith owes answers before separation vote: former federal minister Dion
EDMONTON - The man who helped write the rules on separation votes in Canada says if Alberta's premier is going to take her province down that "worrying" path, she has a duty to spell out to everyone h...
Feb 05, 2026
Supreme Court to hear long-running case about Air Canada's advertised pricing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear arguments on a class-action lawsuit that alleged Air Canada charged passengers more than the advertised ticket price. The long-running case was ...
Feb 05, 2026
