Category Archives: Canada
Senior diplomat skeptical of Carney's middle powers pitch
OTTAWA - Malaysia's high commissioner in Canada says she is skeptical about Prime Minister Mark Carney's push to have middle powers band together against the great power of the world's dominant nation...
May 06, 2026
TKMS pitches undersea research centre focused on Arctic
OTTAWA - German submarine maker TKMS says it has reached an agreement with General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada on setting up an undersea research centre in Canada. It's part of TKMS's bid on the f...
May 06, 2026
Indigenous people should look beyond specific section in economic statement: Minister
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty is defending the government's spring economic update's lack of Indigenous-specific funding. She says Indigenous Peoples need to look beyond the s...
May 06, 2026
Airbus secures 150-plane order with AirAsia in boon for Quebec aviation
MIRABEL - Airbus Canada has signed a deal to supply AirAsia with a massive order of 150 of its Canadian-made A220 jets in a multibillion-dollar coup for Quebec's aviation industry. Unveiled Wednesday,...
May 06, 2026
More millennials lived with parents as adults than boomers at same age: StatCan
OTTAWA - Millennials aged 25 to 39 were nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as baby boomers when they were the same age, a new Statistics Canada analysis shows. According to census data,...
May 06, 2026
Claude Morin, architect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and RCMP informant, dead at 96
MONTREAL - Claude Morin, architect of the Quiet Revolution who helped shape modern Quebec but whose political career unravelled in controversy, has died at 96. A former Parti Qubcois minister, Morin p...
May 06, 2026
Quebec pharmacy chain removing energy drinks from shelves to protect young people
MONTREAL - A Quebec City-based pharmacy chain says it will remove energy drinks from its store shelves amid growing calls for the Quebec government to ban the sale of the high-caffeine beverages to ch...
May 06, 2026
Cattle associations have beef with potential Mercosur trade deal
OTTAWA - Canadian cattle producers want the federal government to omit beef from the free trade agreement it is pushing to sign with the South American Mercosur trade bloc by the end of the year. Tyle...
May 06, 2026
Surgery to repair skull a success for Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala
VANCOUVER - The father of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was gravely injured in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shootings, says surgery to repair her damaged skull has been a success. David Gebala says in...
May 06, 2026
Carney, Liberals say they're waiting on committee report to decide on MAID extension
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he won't take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying. "I like to take informed positions...
May 06, 2026