Canada

Government to deduct taxes from Phoenix damages payments, civil service union says

OTTAWA - The country's biggest civil service union says the federal government plans to issue payments of up to $2,500 to its members next month - minus taxes - even though a dispute over the tax stat...

Feb 18, 2021

Law firm can't deduct wedding costs as a business expense, Quebec court finds

MONTREAL - A Quebec judge has ruled against a law firm that tried to deduct the cost of a lavish wedding for the daughter of one of its lawyers as a business expense. Judge Daniel Bourgeois of Quebec ...

Feb 18, 2021

Head of new Indigenous committee aims for systemic change at Canada Energy Regulator

VANCOUVER - The leader of a new Indigenous Advisory Committee at the Canada Energy Regulator says he wants to fix the system of natural resource development in the country that has previously treated ...

Feb 18, 2021

B.C. premier calls for action on hate crimes in wake of Vancouver police report

LANGFORD, B.C. - British Columbia's premier says violence against people of colour needs to be treated as a hate crime, in light of recent data released by Vancouver police showing a surge in anti-Asi...

Feb 18, 2021

Unpaid oilpatch property taxes triple in two years, say rural municipalities

EDMONTON - Alberta's rural towns say property taxes that have gone unpaid by the province's struggling oilpatch have tripled in two years. A survey released by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta says...

Feb 18, 2021

Cost of mandatory quarantine for newly arrived refugees to be covered by government

OTTAWA - Newly arriving refugees will have the cost of their mandatory hotel quarantines covered by the federal government. The federal government is also covering the cost of mandatory COVID-19 testi...

Feb 18, 2021

'It destroyed him.' Lionel Desmond's friend and fellow infantryman recalls firefights

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former soldier from Nova Scotia killed three family members and himself in 2017 heard today from one of Lionel Desmond's closest friends and fell...

Feb 18, 2021

Canadian government modifies North Atlantic right whale protection measures for 2021

FREDERICTON - The federal Fisheries Department will continue efforts this year to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters, but it is making some changes to reduce the impact ...

Feb 18, 2021

Canada, Britain slap sanctions on Myanmar officials for abuses in military coup

OTTAWA - Canada and Britain have joined forces once again, this time to impose new sanctions on Myanmar after its military toppled its elected government in a coup. Canada has imposed sanctions on nin...

Feb 18, 2021

COVID-19 misery shows in record Ontario job losses; labour groups plead for fed help

TORONTO - The misery inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic beyond its rising death toll was highlighted Thursday by a report showing record-setting job losses in the country's largest province last year,...

Feb 18, 2021