Category Archives: Canada
Experts say Ottawa’s new AI task force is skewed towards industry
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has given its new AI "task force" until the end of the month to fast-track changes to the national artificial intelligence strategy - a plan that critics say leans too ...
Oct 08, 2025
Jobs minister urges striking Canada Post union to respond to latest offer
OTTAWA - The federal jobs minister is urging the union representing striking Canada Post workers to respond to the Crown corporation's latest offers. Patty Hajdu told reporters on the way into the Lib...
Oct 08, 2025
Hydro spying trial delayed as court weights utility's motion to shield information
LONGUEUIL - The trial of a former Hydro-Qubec employee facing economic espionage charges remains on hold over arguments about the utility's commercial secrets. Hydro-Qubec prompted the delay after int...
Oct 07, 2025
Former B.C. lawyer planned murder of his client, Crown tells court
VANCOUVER - The Crown attorney in the first-degree murder trial of a former Kamloops lawyer says the accused methodically planned the murder of his client for more than a week. Ann Katrine Saettler to...
Oct 07, 2025
Marineland says its belugas shouldn't go to Nova Scotia's Whale Sanctuary Project
HALIFAX - Marineland says it has more than a dozen reasons why none of its remaining 30 belugas should be sent to a proposed whale sanctuary in Nova Scotia. The shuttered Ontario theme park, which is ...
Oct 07, 2025
'Love my job': Alberta teachers look to make ends meet in provincewide strike
EDMONTON - If Adrien Dominguez were teaching this week, he'd be introducing physics to a class of 38 high school students. Instead, the math and science teacher from High Prairie, northwest of Edmonto...
Oct 07, 2025
Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause
OTTAWA - Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights ...
Oct 07, 2025
Abandoned baby: Montreal-area police release video of person with bundle in arms
MONTREAL - Police have released surveillance video in the hopes of tracking down the parents of a premature baby abandoned Sunday night outside a home on Montreal's South Shore. The video shows a pers...
Oct 07, 2025
MPs launch probe of trucking sector, Bloc calls out labour standards
OTTAWA - Labour standards in Canada's trucking sector are under scrutiny as a House of Commons committee launched a study of the issue this week and the Bloc Qubcois called on the government to end wh...
Oct 07, 2025
Striking B.C. public service workers expand pickets again to more liquor stores
VANCOUVER - Too many wildland firefighters "hang up their boots" in British Columbia as wages and working conditions erode, but losing that experience could also mean billions in losses, a wildland fi...
Oct 07, 2025