Canada

Toronto volunteers collect, send tactical supplies to Ukraine amid war with Russia

TORONTO - Julia Zaritsky has spent most of her days over the last two weeks figuring out how to buy and ship tactical supplies to Ukrainians fighting the Russian invasion of their country. It's a comp...

Mar 17, 2022

Canadian Pacific Railway issues 72-hour lockout notice on Teamsters Canada

CALGARY - Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to th...

Mar 16, 2022

Two Ontario students survive Texas crash that killed nine

HOBBS, N.M. - Nine people have died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authori...

Mar 16, 2022

CRTC bans Russian state-run broadcaster RT from Canadian airwaves

OTTAWA - Canadian broadcasters are no longer allowed to distribute Russia's state-run broadcaster, RT, after the federal regulator found the programming has targeted Ukrainians during the ongoing Russ...

Mar 16, 2022

B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...

Mar 16, 2022

Canada cheers U.S. effort to abolish 'spring forward, fall back' daylight time ritual

WASHINGTON - A giddy Massachusetts senator, clapping his hands and dancing with delight in the shadow of a sun-drenched U.S. Capitol, isn't something one sees every day. But doing away with the annoyi...

Mar 16, 2022

Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a COVID-19 test to come to Canada: source

OTTAWA - Vaccinated travellers will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test to come to Canada as of April 1, according to a source in the federal government. The source, who is not authorized to sp...

Mar 16, 2022

Liberal government extends amnesty on 'assault-style' firearms until 2023

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is extending its amnesty on "assault-style" firearms until October 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in May 2020 he was banning more than 1,500 mode...

Mar 16, 2022

Tire residue chemical in rain runoff kills fish in urban streams, research finds

A new Canadian study is adding to a growing body of research that shows residue from vehicle tires contains a chemical highly toxic to several important species of fish. In a newly published paper, Un...

Mar 16, 2022

N.L. looks to rename Colonial Building in St. John's as part of reconciliation effort

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government is considering renaming the historic Colonial Building in downtown St. John's. A Nov. 17, 2021 information note from the provincial Tourism ...

Mar 16, 2022