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Soccer official with Iranian ties says he is shocked national team won’t play in B.C.
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
VICTORIA — Babak Shabazi says he and others in B.C.’s Iranian community were “shocked” when he saw that Iran’s national soccer team won’t play in Vancouver during the next year’s World Cup, and many are worried about travelling to the United States to see their favourite team because of political tensions. Figures from the 2021 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Air Transat to start halting flights Monday after pilots issue 72-hour strike notice
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
MONTREAL — Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season. The Air Line Pilots Association said Sunday it filed the strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eager students plus gruelling six-hour math exam equals ‘fun’ at Putnam competition
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is more of a mathematical sporting event than an academic test. The annual exam attracts thousands of students, most ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. Thorne spent much of his career at The Canadian Press and later worked as a freelance writer, photographer and communications consultant before joining Legion Magazine. He toiled for CP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Transat pilots issue 72-hour strike notice, causing some flight suspensions by Monday
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
MONTREAL — The union representing 750 Air Transat pilots says they plan to go on strike Wednesday morning unless progress is made at the bargaining table. The Air Line Pilots Association says it has filed a 72-hour strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year of negotiations with travel company Transat ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.’s northwest
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
British Columbia’s logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province’s northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved. The note, obtained by The Canadian Press and written by a BC Timber Sales manager in the Babine region, acknowledged the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Experts urge Ottawa to seek new trading opportunities within the Western Hemisphere
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada is missing out on economic opportunities in its own backyard, says a new report from the Canadian Council for the Americas. “Latin America is the neglected … close cousin of Canada,” said Janice Stein, a prominent geopolitics expert who co-chaired the report. “Regions matter more in this world when the architecture breaks ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s crypto tax crackdown reaps millions. So why no criminal charges?
By Canadian Press on December 7th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A team of Canada Revenue Agency “cryptoasset auditors” has been mining a rich seam of unpaid taxes, working on more than 200 files and reaping more $100 million in the last three years. While the agency says up to 40 per cent of taxpayers who use cryptoasset platforms either haven’t filed their taxes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thirty-six years after Polytechnique attack killing 14 women, a duty to do more
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
MONTREAL — Montrealers and others across the country paused to pay tribute Saturday to the 14 women who were murdered at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago simply because they were women. The prime minister acknowledged there was much left to do. Mark Carney made the comment as he attended a commemoration in Montreal Saturday night ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says those seeking an independence referendum should not have “gatekeepers,” like the courts, standing in their way. Smith spoke today on her radio call-in show for the first time after her government proposed legislation that would grind to a halt an ongoing court case on the issue. She says ... Read More »
2 responsesEgyptians are buzzing as B.C. Place hosts Egypt, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium
By Canadian Press on December 6th, 2025
VICTORIA — Hany Elheniedy says soccer flows through the blood of Egyptians and he cannot wait for June 21, 2026, when Vancouver’s B.C. Place hosts Egypt and New Zealand as part of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup. The match between the Pharaohs, as the Egyptians are known, and the All-White, as New Zealand’s team ... Read More »
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