Category Archives: Canada

N.L. has the country's highest per-capita debt. It's all but hidden in the election.
ST. JOHN'S - Business and taxpayer organizations are calling on party leaders in Newfoundland and Labrador to stop making costly election promises, as the province carries the country's highest per-ca...
Oct 03, 2025

Terrebonne one-vote win: postal code error on envelope unreported for three weeks
MONTREAL - An election employee noted a discrepancy in the postal codes of special ballot return envelopes in Terrebonne nearly three weeks before the election, but the error wasn't reported to superi...
Oct 02, 2025

Yukoners going to the polls Nov. 3, territory's premier says
The next Yukon territorial election will happen on Nov. 3, the last possible day allowed under the territory's fixed election legislation. Yukon Premier Mike Pemberton told supporters Thursday that he...
Oct 02, 2025

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta after pregnant mother contracts disease
EDMONTON - A newborn in Alberta has died of measles marking the province's first death from the disease this year, the government said Thursday. Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said the child...
Oct 02, 2025

Woman alleges former Canuck Willie Mitchell sexually assaulted her in 2022
VANCOUVER - A woman has filed a lawsuit against former NHL player Willie Mitchell and a resort in Tofino, B.C., alleging she was sexually assaulted by the one-time Vancouver Canuck while she was "extr...
Oct 02, 2025

Security task force says it saw 'small scale' foreign meddling during federal vote
OTTAWA - A new report from a federal security task force says foreign interference activities during the last general election were "small scale" and often difficult to attribute to an actor from abro...
Oct 02, 2025

Liberal MP says it's time to stop the clock on daylight time
OTTAWA - Liberal member of Parliament Marie-France Lalonde wants to call a halt to the annual ritual of springing forward and falling back. The Ottawa-area MP plans to table a private member's bill ne...
Oct 02, 2025

Dr. Balfour Mount, father of palliative care, dies at 86
MONTRAL - Dr. Balfour Mount, widely recognized as the father of palliative care, is being remembered for his contribution to revolutionizing how people live out their final days. Mount died on Sept. 2...
Oct 02, 2025

Superior Court authorizes class action lawsuit against Horne smelter and Quebec
MONTRAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit on behalf of citizens who claim to have been affected by emissions from Glencore's Horne smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Que. In...
Oct 02, 2025

Another CBSA inspection kiosk outage resolved after affecting some Canadian airports
The Canada Border Services Agency says an outage that affected its inspection kiosks at airports across the country has been resolved. The agency says travellers may continue to face delays in the sho...
Oct 02, 2025