Author Archives: Syndicated Content

MONTREAL - Sami Bachir, a co-ordinator with a Quebec search and rescue group that helped look for a missing three-year-old girl this week, says he felt goosebumps when he learned she had been found af...

EDMONTON - A commercial food processing company has been ordered to pay $330,000 after one of its workers became trapped in an Edmonton smokehouse and died. Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. was directe...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Steel Producers Association and United Steelworkers Union are panning Prime Minister Mark Carney's response to U.S. President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs. Their response cam...

OTTAWA - Ottawa is giving no sign that it intends to amend existing legislation on medical assistance in dying - something a UN committee called for earlier this spring. The federal minister responsib...

The chair of British Columbia's NDP caucus has written to the RCMP requesting an investigation into allegations that former members of the B.C. Conservative Opposition tried to blackmail their ex-coll...

MONTREAL - Montreal's public transit agency has reintroduced a no-loitering rule in the city's subway tunnels. The Socit de transport de Montral says the measure helped decrease assaults on staff and ...

INGERSOLL - Bob Pulham recalls the optimism in the air when General Motors began producing electric vans in Ingersoll, Ont., in late 2022. As the first BrightDrop commercial van rolled off the line at...

OTTAWA - Canada won't put a hold on the digital services tax on big tech companies set to take effect on June 30, the finance minister said Thursday. Pressure has mounted on Ottawa to pause the tax ah...

OTTAWA - A panel of judges has overturned a court ruling that directed the federal government to step up the pace of judicial appointments to address an "untenable" number of vacancies. The Federal Co...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer said Thursday he expects the federal government's deficit will balloon this year thanks to ramped-up defence spending - but without a spring budget or more cl...