Category Archives: Canada

WestJet flight attendants win 18% wage hike, new perks after strike
Walking off the job for a day helped earn flight attendants at WestJet a more than 18 per cent wage hike over three years and new compensation for duties the company hasn't typically covered. The term...
Aug 06, 2026

In the news today: Vigil for Calgary boy, New wildfire report, Muskoka teen drama
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Vigil held for Calgary boy, 11, found dead in pipe system after disappearance A vigil was held outside Calgar...
Aug 06, 2026

Vigil held for Calgary boy, 11, found dead in pipe system after disappearance
CALGARY - A vigil was held outside Calgary's city hall on Wednesday evening for an 11-year-old boy with autism who was found dead inside a labyrinth of water pipes a week earlier. Parker's disappearan...
Aug 06, 2026

On weekend when southern B.C. burned, violators of fire bans were caught in the act
On a weekend when thousands of people were forced to flee a ferocious wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes along Okanagan Lake, others were lighting illegal fires nearby, and in other parts of Br...
Aug 06, 2026

Internal DFO memo warns Trump-backed bill threatens right whale survival
ST. JOHN'S - Staff at the federal Fisheries Department are worried the United States government is about to adopt legislation jeopardizing the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, according to ...
Aug 06, 2026

Girl's phone stopped being used hours before her father reported she was missing
ELIZABETHTOWN - The phone of a nine-year-old Montreal girl found drowned in New York last summer went silent in the hours before she was reported missing, her father's murder trial heard Thursday. The...
Aug 06, 2026

Climate change made Ontario, N.W.T. fire conditions roughly twice as likely: report
The conditions underlying intense July wildfires in Ontario and Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change, said a new report published Thursday. The r...
Aug 05, 2026

Carney says tone with U.S. already 'quite firm' as trade talks continue
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada's tone toward the United States is already "quite firm" and insisted trade negotiations with Washington remain "constructive" as an Aug. 19 deadline for...
Aug 05, 2026

Alleged Bishnoi gang member remains in custody after Federal Court ruling
VANCOUVER - The Federal Court has granted Ottawa a judicial review of a decision by an immigration board ordering the release of an alleged member of a criminal gang who is wanted in India to face a m...
Aug 05, 2026

Canadian Armed Forces member charged in terrorist case no longer in the military
MONTREAL - A Quebec man charged last year with facilitating a terrorist activity is no longer a member of the Canadian Armed Forces. Department of National Defence spokesperson Cheryl Forrest declined...
Aug 05, 2026