Category Archives: Canada
In the news today: Public service transit, Canada aids Congo, Montreal plays Carolina
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Feds working with City of Ottawa to ease public service transit woes: memo An internal memo reveals that offi...
May 21, 2026
Cocktail of pills, caffeine and fire retardant put B.C. chinook salmon at risk: study
British Columbia researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine a...
May 21, 2026
'Very good news,' that High Court will hear B.C. mineral claims case, Eby says
OTTAWA - The B.C. government needs clarity from the Supreme Court of Canada on a landmark mineral rights claim, Premier David Eby says. But the lawyer representing the challenger says that they would ...
May 21, 2026
Feds working with City of Ottawa to ease public service transit woes: memo
OTTAWA - Officials managing the federal government's return-to-office plans are concerned about the ability of Ottawa's troubled municipal transit system to actually get public servants to their workp...
May 21, 2026
Air France flight diverted to Montreal amid U.S. Ebola travel restrictions
MONTREAL - U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo boarded "in error" ...
May 21, 2026
What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo
TORONTO - People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola. Some have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Repub...
May 21, 2026
Gilbert Rozon, Just for Laughs founder, agrees to pay $930K to nine accusers: lawyers
MONTREAL - The lawyers for nine women who sued Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon for sexual assault say the media mogul has agreed to pay the complainants $930,000. The settlement comes after Queb...
May 20, 2026
Alberta legislature committee eyes separation vote as meeting hits bizarre roadblock
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - Alberta's journey toward holding a fall referendum on separation took a bizarre turn Wednesday - straight into another roadblock. It occurred when the governing United Cons...
May 20, 2026
Opposition, unions fear federal cuts could undermine food security
OTTAWA - New Democrats and several unions are warning that federal job cuts and research facility closures will put food safety and security at risk. The federal government's website says it's plannin...
May 20, 2026
Canadian steel companies pay millions after U.S says they didn't pay proper tariffs
WASHINGTON - Two Canadian steel companies have agreed to pay $19 million to resolve allegations they knowingly failed to pay proper duties on flat-rolled steel manufactured in Europe and Asia, the U.S...
May 20, 2026