Canada

Bank of Canada names experts to assess its internal review of pandemic policy actions

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has named three experts that will assess its internal review of the central bank's policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts are Pablo Hernndez de Cos, former g...

Aug 08, 2024

Airfares could rise after Calgary hailstorm forces WestJet to cancel flights: expert

An aviation expert says airfares may go up in the immediate aftermath of a hailstorm that tore through Calgary on Monday evening, damaging WestJet planes and upending travel plans. Hailstones as big a...

Aug 08, 2024

Top court nixes Jordan Peterson's appeal of professional college's remedial orders

OTTAWA - Canada's top court has closed the door on Jordan Peterson's legal fight against an order that he enter a remedial coaching program. The author and University of Toronto professor has not had ...

Aug 08, 2024

In the news today: New poll says Canadians split on soccer spy drone penalty

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canadians split on FIFA's Olympics penalty for soccer drone spying, new poll says A new poll suggests Canadian...

Aug 08, 2024

Canadians split on FIFA’s Olympics penalty for soccer drone spying, new poll says

OTTAWA - Most Canadians are not exactly outraged by the punishment meted out to the Canadian women's soccer team over its Olympic drone spying scandal, according to the results of a new poll released ...

Aug 08, 2024

Canada confirms it pulled diplomats' kids out of Israel as fear of broader war builds

OTTAWA - The Canadian government says it decided to pull its diplomats' children and their guardians out of Israel, amid fears over an expanded Mideast war. Global Affairs Canada says it has approved ...

Aug 07, 2024

Minister delays appointment of new human-rights commissioner after independent review

OTTAWA - After an independent review, Justice Minister Arif Virani announced Wednesday that Birju Dattani has agreed not to begin his appointment as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Com...

Aug 07, 2024

Blair announces CFB Esquimalt military housing project, 480 single-occupancy rooms

ESQUIMALT, B.C. - National Defence Minister Bill Blair says British Columbia's CFB Esquimalt will be the site of a new 480-room military housing project. The minister was at the Victoria-area naval ba...

Aug 07, 2024

Utility worker injured in shooting in rural area east of Calgary, another person dead

ROCKY VIEW, Alta. - Mounties say the rural roadside shooting that left one worker wounded and a second person dead was not targeted. RCMP Staff Sgt. Mark Wielgosz made the statement in an investigatio...

Aug 07, 2024

Rinse and repeat: Calgarians back to water restriction as new pipe problems found

CALGARY - Residents in Calgary and surrounding communities, fresh off having to conserve water for weeks due to a water main break, are soon going to have to do it all over again. Mayor Jyoti Gondek s...

Aug 07, 2024