Canada

'Challenges every single muscle': Champion tree climber turns work into passion

WINNIPEG - Climbing up trees, wrangling with ropes and navigating twisted odd-angled limbs may not be everyone's idea of a great day. But it is to Jordyn Dyck, who has turned her job as an arborist in...

Sep 14, 2024

Air Canada, pilots still far apart as strike notice deadline approaches

Labour talks between Air Canada and its pilots are approaching a midnight deadline, when either side could trigger the start of a shutdown for Canada's largest airline. After more than 14 months of ne...

Sep 14, 2024

B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man

VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...

Sep 13, 2024

Call for more Muslim professors: Quebec says anti-Islamophobia adviser must resign

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says Canada's special representative on combating Islamophobia must resign, after she sent a letter to college and university heads recommending the hiring of more Mus...

Sep 13, 2024

Telesat Lightspeed: Canada, Quebec give billions of dollars for satellite production

MONTREAL - The Canadian government has announced a loan of $2.14 billion to satellite operator Telesat, to help the company build its broadband satellite constellation. Quebec's government, meanwhile,...

Sep 13, 2024

Ontario's top court dismisses application for bail from Jacob Hoggard

TORONTO - A justice with Ontario's Appeal Court has dismissed an application for bail from Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard as he tries to appeal his sexual assault conviction at the country's top cour...

Sep 13, 2024

NDP caving to Poilievre on carbon price, has no idea how to fight climate change: PM

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the NDP is caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre when it comes to their stance on the consumer carbon price. Trudeau says h...

Sep 13, 2024

Trudeau says Ukraine can strike deep into Russia with NATO arms, Putin hints at war

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ukraine should be allowed to strike deep inside Russia, regardless of Moscow threatening that this would draw Canada and its allies into direct war. Russian...

Sep 13, 2024

Canada to donate up to 200,000 vaccine doses to combat mpox outbreaks in Africa

The Canadian government says it will donate up to 200,000 vaccine doses to fight the mpox outbreak in Congo and other African countries. It says the donated doses of Imvamune will come from Canada's e...

Sep 13, 2024

In the news today: Chances of disruption increasing at Air Canada

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Chances of disruption increasing as Air Canada pilot talks near deadline Air Canada says some operations will ...

Sep 13, 2024