Canada

The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Education Minister Stephen Lecce called on Ontario’s major teachers’ unions to enter into mediation yesterday, as one took another step toward a potential strike and another voted overwhelmingly in favour of one. Disagreements remain at the table on key issues, including compensation, Lecce said, and having […]

The Canadian PressLaura Kane VANCOUVER–The Trans Mountain pipeline received $320 million in subsidies from the Canadian and Alberta governments in the first half of 2019, said a new report by an economic institute that analyzes environmental issues. The money included $135.8 million in direct subsidies and $183.8 million in indirect […]

The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–A lawyer arguing in favour of a two-tier health-care system in British Columbia says the government can’t legally justify preventing patients from paying private doctors to alleviate their suffering sooner than the public system could provide treatment. Peter Gall began his closing arguments yesterday in a decade-long […]

The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA–Even before he swears in his new cabinet, Justin Trudeau is being urged to ask his new justice minister to move swiftly to make Canada’s assisted-dying law less restrictive. The prime minister has said he’ll comply with a September court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional […]

The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario is proposing to extend a moratorium on water bottling permits for nine months. A spokesman for Environment Minister Jeff Yurek said this would give the government more time to review the science and consult with the public, stakeholders and Indigenous communities. The ministry has finished its […]

The Canadian Press TORONTO–Upcoming changes to the way judges and justices of the peace are selected in Ontario have sparked concerns among opposition politicians who say the move could be an attempt by the Doug Ford government to politicize the process. Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey said the changes, which […]

The Canadian Press TORONTO–Education Minister Stephen Lecce is calling on Ontario’s major teachers’ unions to enter into mediation as most take steps toward strike action. He says disagreements remain at the table on key issues, including compensation, and having an independent, third party would help reach deals. Lecce is speaking […]

The Canadian PressLauren Krugel SIKSIKA, Alta.–A more than 2,000-year-old bison skull unearthed during utility work in downtown Banff, Alta., has been returned to a southern Alberta Indigenous community. “It’s like a welcome home to the buffalo skull,” Siksika Nation councillor Eldon Weasel Child said Friday. The skull was given a […]

The Canadian Press WHITEHORSE–A ceramic urn in the shape of a human toe will soon hold the ashes of the founder of the legendary Sourtoe Cocktail, the whisky drink that comes with the touch of a pickled human big toe. Dick Stevenson, the former Dawson City, Yukon, bartender known by […]

The Canadian Press MONTREAL–One child is dead and another is fighting for her life after a crash involving two vehicles and a moose in western Quebec. The collision occurred yesterday afternoon, when a vehicle hit the moose on route 323 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, about 150 kilometres northwest of Montreal. Provincial police […]

The Canadian PressLaura Kane VANCOUVER–Superbugs are likely to kill nearly 400,000 Canadians and cost the economy about $400 billion in gross domestic product over the next 30 years, warns a landmark report. An expert panel cautions in “When Antibiotics Fail: The growing cost of antimicrobial resistance in Canada” that the […]