Canada

Small Quebec towns debate reducing council size amid recruitment challenges

MONTREAL - Some small Quebec municipalities are considering reducing the size of their city councils due to the challenges of recruiting candidates to run for office. Quebec recently adopted a new rul...

Sep 29, 2024

Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback

British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...

Sep 29, 2024

Carla Beck: Social worker, school trustee seeking job as next Saskatchewan premier

LANG, SASK. - Carla Beck steps out of her SUV with her two dogs and starts walking beside a lake near her hometown, the spot where she learned to feed cows, swing a bat and not keep her mouth shut. Re...

Sep 29, 2024

Labrador residents say "inhumane" food prices force families to go hungry

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A mother in a community where the cost of living is one of the highest in the country says grocery prices are "inhumane" and retailers are putting profits ahead of people's basic hu...

Sep 29, 2024

Bloc pension demands at odds with Liberal political strategy, economic plans

OTTAWA - The government has just weeks to decide if it will meet the $16-billion demand from the Bloc Qubcois to stave off an election for a few more months, but the stipulation may be at odds with th...

Sep 29, 2024

B.C.'s NDP, Conservatives nominate full slates of candidates for Oct. 19 election

VICTORIA - Elections BC says the New Democrats and Conservatives have nominated full slates of candidates for the upcoming Oct. 19 provincial election. Elections BC says in a statement the two main pa...

Sep 28, 2024

Canada announces $10 million for humanitarian assistance in Lebanon

OTTAWA - Canada is contributing $10 million for humanitarian assistance for civilians in Lebanon amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. International Development Minister Ahmed Hus...

Sep 28, 2024

Tentative deal reached in Metro Vancouver grain strike, federal minister says

Canada's labour minister says striking grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver and their employers have reached a tentative labour deal. Steven MacKinnon announced the agreement between Grain Worker...

Sep 28, 2024

NDP uses BC United research to mount attacks on 'crackpot' B.C. Conservatives

VICTORIA - Almost 200 pages of research on the B.C. Conservative Party, which sources within BC United confirm were compiled before the party dropped out of the British Columbia election campaign to s...

Sep 28, 2024

Montreal's Maghrebi community sounds alarm on deadly gangs recruiting youth

MONTREAL - Members of Montreal's Maghrebi community are gathering in a city park this afternoon to sound the alarm about what they call the "scourge" of street gangs recruiting youth to carry out crim...

Sep 28, 2024