Author Archives: Josh Hall
Red Deer Dream Centre secures provincial operating dollars
For the first time, the Government of Alberta is giving operating dollars to the Red Deer Dream Centre.The funding is worth $600,000 over two fiscal years, and will pay for operation of 20 addiction r...
Aug 23, 2024
The latest developments in the labour dispute at Canada's two biggest railways
The federal government is intervening in a countrywide work stoppage at Canada's two biggest railways, but railworkers are pushing back against Ottawa's move to get them back on the job. In the culmin...
Aug 23, 2024
In the news today: Canadians await details on railway reopening
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canadians await details on railway reopening Businesses and industry leaders are anxiously awaiting updates on...
Aug 23, 2024
Disruptions to major commuter lines continue as CN, CPKC await word on arbitration
Thousands of Canadian commuters may have to change their travel plans for a second day after a countrywide rail lockout shut down lines in major metropolitan areas. Bewildered commuters were turned aw...
Aug 23, 2024
Criminal trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers nears its end
OTTAWA - The criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is expected to enter its sixth day of closing arguments. The two are co-accused of mischief, intimidation, and c...
Aug 23, 2024
Health minister puts nicotine pouches behind the counter, bans flavours
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland is putting Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters starting next week as part of his crackdown on the sale of new nicotine products to ch...
Aug 22, 2024
Trudeau says government will have update shortly on solution to rail lockout
OTTAWA - The federal government will have "more to say shortly" on what it's doing to resolve a lockout at Canada's two biggest rail companies, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canadian National Ra...
Aug 22, 2024
Rail work stoppage shuts down some Ontario, Quebec commuter rail lines
TORONTO - Bewildered commuters were turned away from shuttered rail lines on Thursday as an unprecedented railway lockout upset travel plans for more than 30,000 daily riders in some of Canada's large...
Aug 22, 2024
The latest developments in the lockout at Canada's two biggest railways
In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the ...
Aug 22, 2024
Municipalities say Alberta oilpatch policies harming tax base, public interest
EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government is trying to increase production from the province's declining conventional oil and gas fields at the expense of local tax bases, environmental over...
Aug 22, 2024