Canada

B.C. ports shut down again as union rejects tentative deal, resumes strike action

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's ports are facing an uncertain future after the longshore workers union rejected a tentative mediated deal and resumed strike action that had been put to a temporary halt...

Jul 19, 2023

Family remembers firefighter killed in N.W.T. as brave and passionate about his job

FORT LIARD, N.W.T. - The sky dumped buckets of rain, explosive thunder and lightning shook Jack Yeadon's home, and the father started to cry. Yeadon said it was the Creator telling him that his son wa...

Jul 18, 2023

Senator's convoy rant breached ethics code, watchdog says apology not sufficient

OTTAWA - The Senate ethics watchdog has found Conservative Sen. Michael MacDonald violated the code of conduct during the "Freedom Convoy" protest in February 2022. The Nova Scotia senator was caught ...

Jul 18, 2023

Alberta moves to decentralize health-care delivery, 15 years after centralizing it

EDMONTON - Alberta's new health minister has been given the green light to decentralize the entire health-care delivery system - 15 years after the province completed a multistage, multiyear process t...

Jul 18, 2023

RCMP officers' group says Mounties shouldn't be 'scapegoats' in police shortage

VANCOUVER - The voice for almost 20,000 RCMP says its members should not be used as "political pawns" in the dispute between the British Columbia government and the City of Surrey over its policing si...

Jul 18, 2023

Filmmaker James Cameron calls Titan submersible implosion 'extreme outlier'

Canadian filmmaker and deep sea explorer James Cameron says the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people last month was an extreme outlier. The "Titanic" director told reporters in O...

Jul 18, 2023

Ontario, Quebec to see more tornado 'fuel,' but more data needed

MONTREAL - Climate change will likely bring more weather conditions to Ontario and Quebec that are favourable to the development of tornadoes, but it's still unclear whether Central Canada will actual...

Jul 18, 2023

Lack of compensation for Doukhobor religious group disappointing: B.C. ombudsperson

VICTORIA - British Columbia's ombudsperson says he's "deeply disappointed" the government won't commit to compensating members of an exiled Russian religious group who were forcibly removed from their...

Jul 18, 2023

British Columbia's record-breaking wildfire season, by the numbers

British Columbia's wildfire season is now the most destructive on record, with about 14,000 square kilometres of the province burned, surpassing the previous high of 13,543 square kilometres set in 20...

Jul 18, 2023

Quebec gondola crash probe continues; victim identified as Canadian soldier

MONTREAL - The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed today that the man who died in a fatal gondola crash Sunday at the Mont-Tremblant resort was a military member. Fifty-year-old Sheldon Johnson of Kingsto...

Jul 18, 2023