Category Archives: Canada
'Exploitative' trucker loophole to addressed in upcoming budget
OTTAWA - Finance minister Franois-Philippe Champagne will use Tuesday's federal budget to close a tax loophole critics say is exploiting workers and creating unfair labour practices in the trucking in...
Oct 31, 2025
Trump says Carney apologized for Reagan ad, talks still paused
WASHINGTON - U.S President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for an advertisement paid for by the Ontario government that halted trade talks. "I like (Carney) a lot but, you know...
Oct 31, 2025
Analysts say Carney-Xi meeting set right tone, urge caution on next steps
OTTAWA - Some analysts say Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping might set the right tone in moving the bilateral relationship forward, though they also urge caution. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Vaccine records aren't up to date for more than half of Ottawa, Toronto students assessed: public health
TORONTO - Public health records for Ottawa and Toronto schools show that among the cohorts assessed this year, more than half of the students did not have up-to-date immunization records, which expert...
Oct 31, 2025
Quebec order of physicians urges government to suspend controversial doctor-pay law
MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians has called for an immediate suspension of a provincial law that ties doctors' pay to performance targets and threatens punitive damages over action...
Oct 31, 2025
Former refugee believes she wouldn't have been able to stay with proposed border bill
OTTAWA - A trans woman does not believe she would have been able to stay in Canada if the refugee rules outlined in the government's new border bill were in effect. Asya Medea came to Canada in 2018 o...
Oct 31, 2025
Canadiens, Alouettes fans out of luck as transit network paralyzed by strike Saturday
MONTREAL - Montreal sporting fans who had planned on taking public transit to major events on Saturday are out of luck, as the union representing thousands of bus and metro drivers will walk off the j...
Oct 31, 2025
Mandatory minimum child pornography sentences unconstitutional, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says the one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography are unconstitutional. In a ruling today, the top court says althou...
Oct 31, 2025
People 'generally' support advance MAID requests before decision-making capacity lost: report
TORONTO - A new Health Canada report says people surveyed about medical assistance in dying "generally" support allowing patients who will lose their decision-making capacity to give advance consent. ...
Oct 31, 2025
Weak GDP report unlikely to sway Bank of Canada to more rate cuts: economists
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy was showing more cracks in August, but most economists weighing in on the latest data say they don't think the Bank of Canada will respond with more rate cuts anytime soo...
Oct 31, 2025
