Canada

Questions swirl as Liberals prepare to table fall fiscal update

OTTAWA - Questions are swirling on Parliament Hill ahead of a fiscal update that's widely expected to focus on addressing Canada's housing crisis and cost-of-living concerns. Finance Minister Chrystia...

Nov 20, 2023

CRA claws back $458 million in pandemic-era wage subsidies after partial audit

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency has denied or adjusted $458 million in funds disbursed to employers through a pandemic-era wage subsidy program as a result of a partially completed auditing process...

Nov 20, 2023

No word on status of 135 Canadians cleared to leave Gaza Strip over weekend

OTTAWA - Canadians with loved ones trapped in the embattled Gaza Strip are still waiting to learn whether the 135 people cleared to leave the territory on Sunday were able to make the journey. A daily...

Nov 20, 2023

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh blasts Trudeau, Poilievre at B.C. convention

VICTORIA - Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh took political swings at both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre today at a convention for British Columbia Pre...

Nov 19, 2023

Public sector strike: Quebec government calls on unions to submit counter-offer

MONTREAL - Quebec's treasury board president is imploring unionized workers to table a counter-offer to the government's last contract proposal ahead of this week's planned, provincewide public sector...

Nov 19, 2023

Canada criminalized 'condoning, denying or downplaying' the Holocaust: is it working?

OTTAWA - Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid ...

Nov 19, 2023

Tiny beetle to the rescue of N.S. hemlocks attacked by woolly invasive insect

FREDERICTON - On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month from the forests of British Columbia all the way to south...

Nov 19, 2023

Freeland to present fall fiscal update Tuesday as cost-of-living dominates politics

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the fall fiscal update on Tuesday, which is expected to focus on housing and affordability as the Liberal government struggles to regain favour w...

Nov 19, 2023

B.C. stream watchers link 'unprecedented' coho salmon kill to tire toxin and drought

VANCOUVER - John Barker has been volunteering with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society for more than 20 years and says he's never seen anything like it, dozens of coho salmon, pre-spawn and silver...

Nov 19, 2023

List of people cleared to leave Gaza Strip via Egypt includes 135 Canadians

OTTAWA - A new batch of people with ties to Canada desperate to flee escalating violence in the Gaza Strip has been approved to leave the besieged territory as of today. The names of 135 Canadians are...

Nov 19, 2023