Category Archives: Canada

Ottawa opening new express entry pathway for international doctors next year
OTTAWA - Canada will open a new express permanent residency program for international doctors next year, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Monday. She said the program will be open to physicians in ...
Dec 08, 2025

PM says back-to-office plan for bureaucrats coming soon as MPs call for flexibility
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday his government's plan to get public servants to spend more time in the office will come into "sharper view" over the next several weeks. The issue came ...
Dec 08, 2025

In the news today: Trump on trade talks, Air Transat to cancel flights
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trump says 'We'll see' on whether to restart trade talks with Canada U.S. President Donald Trump answered "we'...
Dec 08, 2025

Canada Post commits to free postage for people who are blind as legislation changes
OTTAWA - Canada Post is vowing to maintain free-postage service for people who are blind even as Ottawa's budget bill looks to repeal those parts of the postal service's legislation. Bill C-15, the fe...
Dec 08, 2025

Canada turns to EU for agreements on AI as Montreal hosts G7 digital, tech ministers
OTTAWA - Canada's artificial intelligence minister kicked off two days of meetings among G7 ministers Monday touting new digital agreements with Europe - a move that comes at a time of deep divisions ...
Dec 08, 2025

Bank of Canada expected to hold key rate, move to sidelines after an uncertain 2025
OTTAWA - Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The...
Dec 08, 2025

Trump says 'We'll see' on whether to restart trade talks with Canada
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump answered "we'll see" when he was asked Sunday whether he'd resume the trade talks he halted with Canada earlier this year. Trump made several comments about th...
Dec 07, 2025

Soccer official with Iranian ties says he is shocked national team won't play in B.C.
VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in th...
Dec 07, 2025

Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals 'fun' at Putnam competition
ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William L...
Dec 07, 2025

Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
OTTAWA - Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66. Thorne spent mu...
Dec 07, 2025