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Montreal transit maintenance union suspends strike as new labour bill tabled
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
MONTREAL — Montreal’s public transit network is gradually returning to normal after the union representing maintenance workers decided late Tuesday to suspend their strike. The change comes as Labour Minister Jean Boulet tables legislation that would grant the provincial government greater power to intervene and end strikes. Union president Bruno Jeannotte says the workers have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Watchdog wanted: Ottawa is hiring a permanent parliamentary budget officer
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa is looking to hire a permanent fiscal watchdog a few months after appointing an interim parliamentary budget officer. The federal government’s new list of governor-in-council appointments includes a posting for a new budget officer — an independent agent of Parliament who offers analysis of budgets, campaign promises and other spending plans. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand announces new sanctions targeting Russian drones as G7 diplomats meet
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is announcing more sanctions on Russia today as she hosts top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries in the Niagara region. The sanctions will target those behind Russia’s drone and cyber attacks on Ukraine, as well as vessels in Russia’s sanctions-evading shadow fleet. G7 foreign ministers are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Federal budget falls flat: poll; G7 meeting in southern Ontario
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Federal budget falls flat on affordability: poll New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week — leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election campaign ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Affordability gap leaves Liberal budget with middling reviews: Leger poll
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
OTTAWA — New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week — leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election campaign over the spending plan. The Leger survey indicates some 30 per cent of Canadians who responded approve of the budget tabled by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal prison service ‘ill-equipped’ for long-term mental health care: watchdog
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal prison ombudsman says weak policies, insufficient training and a lack of specialized treatment are hindering the Correctional Service of Canada’s efforts to deliver mental health care. In his latest annual report, correctional investigator Ivan Zinger says it’s “abundantly clear” the prison service is fundamentally ill-equipped to provide long-term mental health care ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top diplomats to talk with Ukraine’s foreign minister at G7 meeting in Niagara region
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries are gathering in southern Ontario today to hear from Ukraine’s foreign minister as Russia escalates the grueling war by targeting the Ukrainian power grid. The Russian attacks have brought rolling blackouts to Ukraine as winter approaches and U.S.-led diplomatic efforts remain at a standstill. Foreign ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fondue and dead bread: Roughrider and Alouette superfans prep for Grey Cup Sunday
By Canadian Press on November 12th, 2025
EDMONTON — Lance Hackewich loves his Saskatchewan Roughriders — and he’s got a 75-year-old desiccated, positively inedible piece of history to prove it. It’s a loaf of bread from 1951. It sits among other treasured mementoes in wall-to-wall glass case displays alongside old and new Roughrider jerseys, helmets, newspaper clippings, posters and footballs in Hackewich’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s about all of us’: Armed Forces, veterans gather for Remembrance Day in Montreal
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
MONTREAL — On Remembrance Day, Bruno Plourde said his thoughts were with a comrade he lost while the two were deployed in Afghanistan. “We have a special place in our heart for him today,” he said Tuesday morning from Montreal’s Place du Canada. “For all the people that lost their lives — or who sometimes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand opens G7 foreign ministers meeting with a push for multilateralism
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand opened a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven countries Tuesday by calling for continued collaboration to tackle many of the world’s problems. “Meeting global challenges requires global partnerships,” Anand said. Anand welcomed G7 foreign ministers to Ontario’s freshly snow-covered Niagara region for a two-day gathering ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Railways says rock slide may have caused B.C. derailment that spilled jet fuel
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
SAVONA, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Rail operator Canadian Pacific Kansas City says a rock slide may be partially to blame for a derailment near Kamloops, B.C., that resulted in the spill of more than 70,000 litres of jet fuel alongside a local lake. CPKC Indigenous relations and government affairs director Mike LoVecchio said during a public ... Read More »
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