Canada

Judge authorizes plan to transform six Quebec dailies into employee cooperatives

MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a plan that transforms six insolvent regional French-language newspapers across the province into employee cooperatives and reduces pen...

Dec 23, 2019

Company seeks injunction: Co-op, union in court over pickets at Regina refinery

REGINA - A nearly three-week labour dispute between a Saskatchewan petroleum refinery and hundreds of its workers moved from the picket line into the courtroom Monday, with the company seeking an inju...

Dec 23, 2019

Chinese embassy takes swipe at 'some politicians' over talk of freeing Canadians

OTTAWA - The Chinese embassy is taking a swing at "some Canadian politicians" over what it describes as "erroneous remarks" about the relationship between the two countries and the cases of two Canadi...

Dec 23, 2019

N.S. sawmills seeking new markets in wake of announced Northern Pulp closure

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia sawmill operators say their outlook after the closure of Northern Pulp is one of troubling uncertainties and, so far, few answers from the provincial government&nb...

Dec 23, 2019

Conservative party's fundraising boss takes over temporary helm of party

OTTAWA - The director of fundraising for the federal Conservatives has taken over as acting director of the party as it continues to grapple with the fallout from the resignation of leader Andrew Sche...

Dec 23, 2019

Bump in low-income rates expected as StatCan sets to redraw poverty line

OTTAWA - The national statistics office is looking at changes to the federally adopted poverty line which, if approved, could mean more people are considered to live below the low-income threshold. Th...

Dec 23, 2019

Manitoba New Democrats want public to weigh in on possible end to clock changes

WINNIPEG - Manitoba could become the next battleground over time change. The Opposition New Democrats are launching a website and public consultations on whether the province should stop springin...

Dec 23, 2019

Conservatives postpone policy convention to focus on organizing leadership race

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say they're postponing a policy convention that had been scheduled for mid-April to allow more time to organize an upcoming leadership race. The party announced the ...

Dec 22, 2019

Champagne quiet on what U.S. thinks of idea to hold off on trade deal with China

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is refusing to say how Washington responded to Canada's request that it hold off on signing a trade deal with China until Canadian pr...

Dec 22, 2019

Sixty-nine Canadians giving up holidays to help with Australian wildfires

TORONTO - Sixty-nine Canadians are giving up their holidays at home to join the battle for the first time against the deadly wildfires devastating vast tracts of several Australian states. The C...

Dec 22, 2019