Canada

Rooming house revival: Canadian cities look to single-room homes amid housing crunch

MONTREAL - Rooming or boarding houses are regaining favour with some Canadian cities as a way to offset a lack of affordable homes, but experts warn there are pitfalls to the once-popular form of urba...

Jul 01, 2023

Strike gets underway for more than 7,400 port workers across B.C.

VANCOUVER - Port workers across British Columbia formally went on strike on Saturday after negotiations supported by federal mediators failed to produce a deal to keep more than 7,000 employees on the...

Jul 01, 2023

Celebrations, fireworks taking place in Ottawa despite air quality concerns

OTTAWA - Canada Day celebrations are taking place in Ottawa and across the country on Saturday, although some have been scaled back due to poor air quality. Canada's capital city will see some festivi...

Jul 01, 2023

Legacy of Canada's ban on Chinese immigration lasted longer than the law

OTTAWA - When Matthew Yan looks at the stoic and determined expression on his father's face in the black and white photo affixed to the identification papers he carried for decades, he mostly feels pi...

Jul 01, 2023

Possible B.C. port strike will spare cruise ships, employers say

VANCOUVER - A possible strike by British Columbia port workers will not disrupt cruise ships docked in Vancouver, Prince Rupert or Vancouver Island, employers say. The BC Maritime Employers Associatio...

Jun 30, 2023

N.W.T. construction company fined $100K following worker's death

FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. - A construction company in the Northwest Territories has been fined $100,000 after a worker was killed at a site outside Fort Simpson in 2020. Nogha Enterprises Ltd. pleaded guil...

Jun 30, 2023

Fire damages Syrian tent home of detained Canadian mother and children: advocate

OTTAWA - An advocacy group says a Canadian mother struggling to leave a Syrian detention camp with her six children was dealt another setback this week when a fire damaged their tent home. Alexandra B...

Jun 30, 2023

U.S.-based remote vehicle operator gives timeline of Titan recovery off Newfoundland

EAST AURORA, N.Y. - The owner of the remotely operated vehicle that recovered pieces of the Titan submersible says it found the wreck on the ocean floor soon after arriving at the search site on June ...

Jun 30, 2023

Yukon still waiting for federal support to build flooding mitigation infrastructure

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says the territory is "patiently waiting" for federal support for building mitigation infrastructure after severe flooding in the Klondike Valley this spring. Premier...

Jun 30, 2023

'Imagine what we can do': Astronaut Jeremy Hansen sees great potential for Canada

As Jeremy Hansen prepares for his mission around the moon, the Ontario-born astronaut is thinking about the ways Canada could help tackle some of the world's most pressing problems. The 47-year-old co...

Jun 30, 2023