Category Archives: Canada
Treasury Board minister says he's not aware of pests in federal office buildings
OTTAWA - Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali says he's unaware of the presence of pests in federal office buildings. Responses to a House of Commons order paper question revealed last month that pest...
Oct 8, 2026
Author Galloway says he can’t write since sexual assault claim derailed career
VANCOUVER - Author and former UBC creative writing professor Steven Galloway wept as he testified that he can no longer write since unproven allegations of sexual assault derailed his career. "I just ...
Oct 8, 2026
Cold Lake First Nations seeks judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation
OTTAWA - Cold Lake First Nations filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court on Thursday challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national...
Oct 8, 2026
Three horses en route to Equestrian Canada event killed in B.C. highway crash
REVELSTOKE - Three horses being transported to an Equestrian Canada event in Langley, B.C., have been killed in a crash on Highway 1 in the British Columbia Interior. Equestrian Canada said in a state...
Oct 8, 2026
Carney says Canada's future up to Canadians after Musk voices support for separatism
SHERBROOKE - Prime Minister Mark Carney responded Thursday to tech industrialist Elon Musk's endorsement of provincial separation movements by saying Canada's future will be decided by its citizens - ...
Oct 8, 2026
Covert U.S. effort led to Canada's acceptance of dubious postwar immigrants: study
OTTAWA - Newly released passages from a landmark 1986 study say at least 35 people with apparently suspect backgrounds came to Canada after the Second World War through a covert program set up by U.S....
Oct 8, 2026
Ottawa records 60 per cent spike in arrests, detentions of Canadians in United States
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says the number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens in the United States jumped 60 per cent in the last fiscal year compared to the year before. "...
Oct 8, 2026
Major government economic legislation C-39 clears first vote, heads to committee
OTTAWA - A key piece of the Carney government's economic agenda, Bill C-39, passed its first vote in the House of Commons Thursday when Conservatives voted with the majority Liberals to send the bill ...
Oct 8, 2026
Official languages commissioner rebukes Air Canada CEO over English-only message
OTTAWA - The Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada is rebuking Air Canada's outgoing CEO for a condolence message he delivered almost entirely in English after a deadly plane crash in New York ...
Oct 8, 2026
Supreme Court of Canada declines to hear appeal of man sanctioned over ties to Moscow
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a man sanctioned by Ottawa over his ties to Moscow. The decision is the latest legal setback for Igor Viktorovich Makarov, who made bil...
Oct 8, 2026