Category Archives: Canada

LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal-area company has come up with a novel - if extreme - way to boost employee happiness: buying them a private island. The 30 workers at data services company Mon Technicien are ...

Fran Forsberg fought years ago for a gender marker to be removed from her child's birth certificate. Now up against the Saskatchewan Party government's pronoun and naming changes in schools, she says ...

A clean energy think tank says Alberta's pause on approvals for new renewable energy projects is affecting 118 projects worth $33 billion. The Pembina Institute says those projects would create enough...

OTTAWA - Ukraine is calling on Canada to help it sell a peace plan with Russia to developing countries who have taken a neutral stance on Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro K...

OTTAWA - Keith Spicer, Canada's first commissioner of official languages, died Thursday in Ottawa at 89. Canadians who closely followed the constitutional debates of the early 1990s might remember him...

OTTAWA - Canada's corporate-ethics watchdog is investigating whether Walmart, Hugo Boss and Diesel have forced labour in their supply chains. Sheri Meyerhoffer, the Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterp...

As Canada struggles through its worst fire season in recorded history, a new survey suggests protecting forests remains one issue that unites most Canadians no matter who they are or where they live. ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... N.W.T. officials want evacuees to stay out for now Northwest Territories offici...

Firefighters in British Columbia's southern Interior continue to battle a number of major blazes, having been aided by ample rainfall that fell Wednesday over the Okanagan and Shuswap regions. BC Wild...

North Shuswap resident Kyle Boppre offers a simple explanation when asked why he defied an evacuation order issued as a wildfire bore down on his neighbourhood. "It's just, I guess, in my blood to fig...