Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Universite de Montreal is monitoring its IT network after about 120 of the school’s computers were infected with the same cyberattack that hit computers around the world. University s...

WINNIPEG - Age-related arthritis has led to a long-standing resident of Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo being euthanized. Zoo officials confirmed Monday in a Facebook posting that Kendra, a matr...

OTTAWA - Airlines won’t be allowed to bump passengers from a flight against their will under a new passenger bill of rights introduced Tuesday by Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. That chang...

OTTAWA - Canada's top accountant is calling on the federal government to kick start much-needed improvements to airports in Canada's remote north. In his spring report to Parliament, auditor general M...

OTTAWA - It’s nearly impossible to tell if the government is meeting a promise to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies because it won’t provide the necessary information, the audito...

OTTAWA - Canada’s temporary foreign workers program is rife with oversight problems that appear to have allowed lower-paid international workers to take jobs that out-of-work Canadians could fil...

OTTAWA - Some of the highlights from auditor general Michael Ferguson’s spring 2017 report, tabled Tuesday: - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members, with new mental ...

OTTAWA - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members due to a lack of resources, poor monitoring and meagre support from supervisors, says the federal spending watchdog. While t...

HALIFAX - Two years after an Air Canada jet crash-landed in a blizzard at Halifax’s airport, injuring 25 people, the results of a Transportation Safety Board investigation will be released Thurs...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are cautioning bystanders against intervening in crimes after an eastern Newfoundland man was injured tackling a teenager accused of armed robbery. The Royal Newfoundla...