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Federal budget watchdog has ‘no idea’ who successor will be or when they’ll be named
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux has “no idea” who will be taking over his job when his term ends next month. Giroux, who took on the job in 2018, will mark his final day on September 2. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Giroux said he’s reached out to the Privy Council ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada Post and union set to meet, two weeks after workers rejected contract
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers are set to head back to the bargaining table today. It’s been two weeks since members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers rejected the employers’ latest offers in a majority vote. After more than a year and a half of negotiations, the two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More brands of Dubai chocolate recalled in salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
More recalls have been issued for a popular type of chocolate after a salmonella outbreak linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says several additional brands of Dubai pistachio and knafeh milk chocolate have been recalled. The brands are Chocofolie, Chocolato, Chocolats Favoris, Dubai and Vincent Sélection. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain on the way after Vancouver Island wildfire grows by more than half
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
PORT ALBERNI — A forecast of up to 40 millimetres of rain is expected to help firefighters battling a wildfire that has been raging near Port Alberni on Vancouver Island this week. The Mount Underwood fire that has triggered evacuation orders and alerts measured more than 34 square kilometres on Thursday, about 58 per cent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More people urged to prepare to evacuate N.L. fire that has destroyed about 100 homes
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador extended an evacuation alert Thursday evening, asking residents of a small coastal community to be ready to flee a wildfire that may have already destroyed up to 100 homes and structures. As a precaution, the province asked residents of Job’s Cove, on Newfoundland’s Bay de Verde Peninsula, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fact File: Canadian misidentified as CDC headquarters shooter
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
Social media posts falsely claimed a Canadian teen, Silas Kruger, was responsible for a shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., on Friday that left a police officer and the suspect dead. In fact, authorities said 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White is the suspected shooter. Kruger’s father, a Saskatchewan-based ... Read More »
1 responseRacial profiling of customers a neglected human rights issue, report says
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
Heiltsuk Tribal Council Chief Marilyn Slett says no one in her community is immune to the small acts of racial profiling that can embed themselves in the everyday life of an Indigenous person in Canada. “It’s my parents going to a restaurant, and it’s not a busy time in that restaurant, and they’re refusing to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver Island wildfire grows by more than half, rain is on the way
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
PORT ALBERNI — The wildfire that has triggered evacuation orders and alerts on south-central Vancouver Island has grown to more than 34 square kilometres, about 58 per cent larger than what it was the day before. The BC Wildfire Service says the measurement of the Mount Underwood fire, 12 kilometres south of Port Alberni, B.C., ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge overstepped his authority in ruling against Quebec’s language law: appeal court
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal says a provincial court judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he ruled that part of the province’s language law is unconstitutional. In May 2024, Quebec court Judge Denis Galiatsatos raised the question on his own initiative while overseeing a case involving a woman charged with criminal negligence causing the death ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian-led patrol finds alleged shark finning, dolphin harvesting in North Pacific
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific has uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins. Sean Wheeler, international enforcement chief for the Fisheries Department, says the two-month surveillance mission was the first to include crews from three other countries, including the United States, Japan and South Korea, on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. State Department targets Online News Act in human rights report
By Canadian Press on August 14th, 2025
OTTAWA — The U.S. State Department has released a new human rights report that takes aim at Canada’s Online News Act. The bill, which requires Meta and Google to compensate news publishers for the use of their content, is cited in a section of the report on freedom of the press. Prime Minister Mark Carney ... Read More »
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