Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Businesses and industry leaders are anxiously awaiting updates on when Canada's freight trains could start moving again now that the federal government has intervened in a work stoppage that ...

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...

VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...

OTTAWA - Mounties say they are responding to additional bomb threats made across Canada today that they believe are linked to similar threats made the day before. RCMP say they responded to the threat...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has ended the fiscal year with a deficit of about $5 billion, some $900 million lower than the most recent forecast, but higher than last year's budget had called for. The ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Rail shutdown begins as workers locked out In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways ...