Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The FIFA World Cup and a better summer jobs market for young workers appeared to drive steady gains in Canada's labour market last month. Employers added 18,000 jobs in June, Statistics Canad...

RICHMOND - Transport Canada has ordered the detention of a boat operated by a British Columbia fishing charter operation whose other vessel sank last month, leaving one person dead and six others miss...

VICTORIA - Ministers in British Columbia have approved plans to increase the height of the tailings storage facility at the Mount Polley copper and gold mine, the site of a catastrophic dam collapse m...

NORTH VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a legal challenge against a plan by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority to dredge Burrard Inlet to make room for oil tankers with...

CN Rail says safety is its top priority, as train service resumes following a derailment on the edge of a suburban residential area northeast of Montreal. Repentigny, Que., Mayor Nicolas Dufour says t...

OTTAWA - Former B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Caroline Elliott is pushing back at Pierre Poilievre's recent jab about her campaign team, calling on the federal Conservative leader to work to ...

MONTREAL - A little over a week after Quebec's unofficial moving day, 71 households in Montreal remain in emergency housing - almost twice as many last year when there 40 in that situation. Most of th...

VANCOUVER - Conner Macdonald says he's watched for the last eight years as the price of beef climbed "astronomically," as customers at the butcher shop where he works turned to chicken or pork, even o...

MONTREAL - Quebec's statistics institute is projecting that the province's population will decline slightly in the next few years before stabilizing. New demographic projections released today show th...

MONTRAL - Quebec trucking industry actors are praising the provincial government's decision to tighten rules for Ontario truck drivers in an effort to curb dangerous driving. As of Thursday, truck dri...