Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line RCMP members wants the force to ease requirements for foreign applicants to help attract experienced police officers from agencies like the U.S. Federal Bure...

OTTAWA - The federal government's decision to boost entry-level pay for Canadian Armed Forces members is being praised by expert observers as long overdue. On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said h...

TORONTO - Pistachios have been the subject of a series of recalls linked to a salmonella outbreak, and while some health officials say that doesn't mean people should avoid all pistachio products, oth...

MONTREAL - Pascal Lessard and his partner bought their farm in 2019. They live in the Chaudire-Appalaches region of Quebec. It's a rural area south of Quebec City. Although they were concerned about h...

The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has made a final decision to more than double countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move business groups in British Columbia say will har...

VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island First Nation has won back fishing rights and title for part of the land its ancestors used as a summer home in the Lower Mainland, despite opposition by two other Indigen...

This week, the BC Wildfire Service posted on Facebook two aerial view images of wildfires raging across densely forested terrain with aircraft attempting to douse the flames. The images were dramatic,...

TORONTO - After her extraordinary win at the National Bank Open in Montreal, 18-year-old tennis sensation Victoria Mboko is being celebrated as a role model for the next generation of Canadian athlete...

Canada's Transportation Safety Board says it is looking into what happened when a sightseeing vessel ran aground in the waters off Metro Vancouver last weekend. The agency says investigators have been...

TORONTO - Canada's 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record. The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest fires have torn through 72,000 square kilome...