Category Archives: Canada
Ottawa gives updated deal to federal union that signed agreement before PSAC strike
OTTAWA - The federal government has given an updated deal to a public-service union that signed its collective agreement in the fall in order to match deals reached with the Public Service Alliance of...
Jun 6, 2023
Evacuees can return in Sept-Îles, but more than 160 wildfires still burning in Quebec
MONTREAL - One Quebec city that had been threatened by approaching wildfires has lifted an evacuation order, but other parts of the province continue to deal with out-of-control blazes that are taxing...
Jun 6, 2023
Poilievre calls on Liberals to make killers like Bernardo stay in max-security prison
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should see to it that mass murderers serve their entire sentences in maximum-security prison. The call comes as Trudeau...
Jun 6, 2023
Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade
New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be op...
Jun 6, 2023
Internal docs suggest Trudeau wants China blocked from Pacific Rim trade deal
OTTAWA - An internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out of a Pacific Rim trade bloc, despite the Liberals publicly insisting it would welcome anyone who meets the tra...
Jun 6, 2023
Conservative filibuster threatens potential citizenship for children born abroad
OTTAWA - Advocates for would-be Canadians born abroad say Conservative efforts to filibuster amendments to the Citizenship Act are threatening their hopes of passing their nationality on to their chil...
Jun 6, 2023
David Johnston expected to begin public meetings on foreign interference next month
OTTAWA - Former governor general David Johnston says he will begin holding public meetings next month on foreign interference attempts in Canada's elections. Johnston, whom Prime Minister Justin Trude...
Jun 6, 2023
In The News for June 6 : Feds say Canada on track to have worst wildfire season ever
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Jun 6, 2023
Feds warn 2023 on track to be the worst fire season ever seen in Canada
Canada's emergency preparedness minister says images of wildfires burning across the country are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indic...
Jun 6, 2023
B.C. officials push back on safe supply critics, seeing 'no sign' drugs are diverted
VICTORIA - British Columbia officials have rebutted claims that drugs prescribed through the province's safe supply program aimed at curbing overdoses are being re-sold to young people, helping fuel t...
Jun 5, 2023