Category Archives: CP Canada
Talks off before they began, BCGEU leader says of negotiations with B.C. government
VICTORIA - The head of the union representing British Columbia's 34,000 public sector workers says a government request to get back to the bargaining table appears to have been a "cheap stunt" as it o...
Sep 29, 2025
Quebec impresario Gilbert Rozon's $14M sexual assault civil trial now up to judge
MONTREAL - After 10 long months, the civil trial pitting Quebec impresario Gilbert Rozon against nine plaintiffs accusing him of sexual assault has come to an end. The 70-year-old Rozon is being sued ...
Sep 29, 2025
Legal challenges claim B.C. natural gas pipeline hasn't been 'substantially started'
VANCOUVER - Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in ...
Sep 29, 2025
Campbell not a 'saviour' but a much-needed conduit for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell said his appointment as British Columbia's new point-person to improve quality of life for people living in the city's Downtown Eastside doesn't mean he's a "czar...
Sep 29, 2025
New Major Projects Office absorbing existing team already doing much of the same work
OTTAWA - The federal government's new Calgary-based major projects office to help fast track major infrastructure proposals will absorb a similar division created in Ottawa just over one year ago to d...
Sep 29, 2025
Groups urge PM Carney to act on climate finance risk, 10 years after key speech
MONTREAL - A decade after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a famous speech about the financial risks associated with climate change, global organizations called for financial system reforms in an ...
Sep 29, 2025
Ottawa gets nearly 1,000 federal budget briefs, with many AI and digital policy asks
OTTAWA - The federal finance committee has received 948 briefs as part of its consultation ahead of the federal budget, with many of them touching on artificial intelligence and digital policy issues....
Sep 29, 2025
One of three beached sperm whales in P.E.I. dead; condition of another unknown
One of three beached sperm whales off the coast of northern Prince Edward Island has died, says a marine rescue organization. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, sa...
Sep 29, 2025
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says major projects push can coexist with reconciliation
OTTAWA - Reconciliation has not returned to the back burner as Canada pushes forward to develop major projects, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said in an interview just ahead of the National Day for Truth and R...
Sep 29, 2025
'Canada does not retreat' as crises shake multilateralism, Anand tells United Nations
OTTAWA - Canada will not step away from the challenges of an increasingly complex world, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. "When multilateral ins...
Sep 29, 2025