Category Archives: Canada

Sweeping federal labour reforms come into force today, but the government is still figuring out who will be exempt from key provisions. Thousands of workers and employers are facing uncertainty a...

LANGLEY, B.C. - The family of a 14-year-old British Columbia boy whose apparent overdose death was filmed and posted on social media delivered a powerful call for change at his funeral on Th...

MONTREAL - Residents of Montreal's Park Extension area say evictions are on the rise amid gentrification in the province's poorest neighbourhood. Tenants and community advocates gathered at Parc Saint...

MONTREAL - As Quebec students return to school this week, many are heading into classrooms without a full-time, qualified teacher to learn from, two Montreal-area school boards say...

MONTREAL - Community groups are meeting in downtown Montreal today to raise awareness of the risks of drug use as part of International Overdose Awareness Day. Each month more than a thousand Quebecer...

HALIFAX - Research scientists are watching with fascination this weekend as a search for rare undersea life is being broadcast live by two remotely operated vessels run by the...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservatives have repealed a ban on seclusion rooms in schools that was brought in by the previous NDP government over concerns the rooms were traumatizing students w...

OTTAWA - Consumer advocates say a rare consensus is forming among the major political parties ahead of the federal election that Canadians need protecting from gouging by the country's big telecom com...

MONTREAL - An official with the team that represented Quebec at the recent national baseball championship in New Brunswick says his players won't return to any Baseball Canada tournaments if...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An Alberta prosecutor says a couple that failed to seek medical attention for their son who later died of bacterial meningitis were aware that he was suffering from a form of the d...