Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt trains on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger servic...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says no one should construe the co-operation between Canada and China on the novel coronavirus outbreak as a sign that relations between t...

The global body that regulates shipping is moving to eliminate a highly polluting fuel in the Arctic. The International Maritime Organization has passed a draft regulation to ban heavy fuel oil i...

KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec retracted comments Wednesday about the possibility of ongoing rail blockades coming down - words that didn't go over well with members of his own comm...

EDMONTON - A blockade set up on a Canadian National rail line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs was being dismantled - at least temporarily - Wednesday ...

OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are signalling they want to move the national-secrets case against a senior RCMP official behind closed doors, at least temporarily, while they sort out how to handle...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog and three of his provincial counterparts will jointly investigate Canadian use of facial-recognition technology supplied by U.S. firm Clearvie...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - Lionel Desmond's licence to buy and possess guns was placed under review by firearms officials in New Brunswick in 2014 and again 2015, an inquiry into the...

OTTAWA - A plane carrying 129 Canadians and their families who have spent weeks confined to cabins aboard a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan landed on Canadian soil this morning. The for...

Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia (All times Eastern):   10:13 Police south of Montreal are patrolling an ongoing blockade ...