Canada

The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says its 8,000 education workers will walk off the job Friday in solidarity with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, whose 55,000 education workers are set to strike. OPSEU represents education workers such as educational assistants and early childhood educators at several boards in […]

A new study from the University of Calgary says getting the annual flu shot may have a major health bonus other than fending off the latest strain of influenza — it may also lower the risk of having a stroke. Researchers from the Cumming School of Medicine evaluated the health […]

The deadline for child-care operators in Ontario to opt-in to the national $10-a-day program is today. Ontario extended the deadline from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 to allow operators more time sign up for the program, which will reduce child care fees for parents. About 85 per cent of operators […]

A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is criticizing the Ontario government’s use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation to impose contracts on education workers and ban them from striking. Trudeau made the comments a day after Ontario tabled a bill meant to avert a planned strike by 55,000 education workers. Using the […]

OTTAWA – We’ll see you at Christmas. It was October 2011 and Candy Greff was standing outside a restaurant in Morinville, Alta.,saying goodbye to her son Byron Greff. Little did she know that it would be the last time she would see him alive. A 28-year-old master corporal with the […]

OTTAWA – Lawyers for Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top provincial minister are set to argue in court today in an effort to get the pair out of testifying at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry. The Public Order Emergency Commission summoned Ford and then-solicitor general Sylvia Jones last week […]

OTTAWA – “Freedom Convoy” organizers are expected to testify at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act starting today. The witnesses are expected to shed light on the conception of the weeks-long demonstrations that gridlocked Ottawa streets last winter. Several of the protest organizers, including […]

VANCOUVER – Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province’s new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system. The provincial government said Monday a full-time family doctor would be paid about $385,000 a year, up from […]

Ontario’s education minister is planning to introduce legislation today to avert a looming strike by support staff and impose a contract on them, which the union says it intends to fight. Stephen Lecce says the legislation is in response to the refusal by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which […]

Standing on slush under street lights in front of a charred and boarded-up home where a fire claimed the lives of four young children, a large crowd gathered in a northern Manitoba city to mourn the loss and comfort the grieving family. Many of those at Saturday night’s vigil in […]

Ontario is set to release its fall economic statement on Nov. 14. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says the province will be providing an update on its “plan to build.” He announced last month that Ontario ended the last fiscal year with a $2.1-billion surplus, a far cry from the $33-billion […]