Canada

Canadians await details on railway reopening after feds intervene in labour dispute

OTTAWA - Businesses and industry leaders are anxiously awaiting updates on when Canada's freight trains could start moving again now that the federal government has intervened in a work stoppage that ...

Aug 23, 2024

Disruptions to major commuter lines continue as CN, CPKC await word on arbitration

Thousands of Canadian commuters may have to change their travel plans for a second day after a countrywide rail lockout shut down lines in major metropolitan areas. Bewildered commuters were turned aw...

Aug 23, 2024

Criminal trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers nears its end

OTTAWA - The criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is expected to enter its sixth day of closing arguments. The two are co-accused of mischief, intimidation, and c...

Aug 23, 2024

B.C. addictions minister allowed to respond to decriminalization court challenge

VANCOUVER - Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to d...

Aug 22, 2024

RCMP working with international police amid new slew of threats targeting synagogues

OTTAWA - Mounties say they are responding to additional bomb threats made across Canada today that they believe are linked to similar threats made the day before. RCMP say they responded to the threat...

Aug 22, 2024

B.C. ended fiscal year with $5B deficit, as wildfires, lower revenue bite into budget

VICTORIA - British Columbia has ended the fiscal year with a deficit of about $5 billion, some $900 million lower than the most recent forecast, but higher than last year's budget had called for. The ...

Aug 22, 2024

Health minister puts nicotine pouches behind the counter, bans flavours

OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland is putting Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches behind pharmacy counters starting next week as part of his crackdown on the sale of new nicotine products to ch...

Aug 22, 2024

Trudeau says government will have update shortly on solution to rail lockout

OTTAWA - The federal government will have "more to say shortly" on what it's doing to resolve a lockout at Canada's two biggest rail companies, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canadian National Ra...

Aug 22, 2024

Rail work stoppage shuts down some Ontario, Quebec commuter rail lines

TORONTO - Bewildered commuters were turned away from shuttered rail lines on Thursday as an unprecedented railway lockout upset travel plans for more than 30,000 daily riders in some of Canada's large...

Aug 22, 2024

The latest developments in the lockout at Canada's two biggest railways

In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the ...

Aug 22, 2024