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Quebec college facing $30M fine over English student enrolment postpones 1st day
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
MONTREAL — A Quebec college facing a $30-million fine for enrolling too many students in English-language programs is suspending the first day of classes on Monday. LaSalle College says in a statement that the suspension is tied to the fine imposed on the Montreal school. The college says back-to-class will now be on Tuesday and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Firefighting efforts continue in Atlantic Canada as large storm passes offshore
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources says a large wildfire in the Annapolis Valley remains out of control and is still estimated at more than 32 square kilometres in size. In a social media post today, the department says conditions look promising to continue to make progress on the Long Lake fire before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Minister’s office reviewing tribunal order on First Nations child welfare
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s office says she is reviewing a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order for parties involved in a decade-long First Nations child welfare case to resume talks to reform the system after an impasse. The order comes nine years after the tribunal concluded the federal government discriminated against First Nations ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking. A tree physiologist said that several years of repeated drought in British Columbia mixed with heat stress increased the likelihood of branches breaking off, and this could even happen on a “perfectly calm day” without any breeze. The consequences can be tragic — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s ridiculous’: Why some Canadian youth feel ready to tap out of tipping culture
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
EDMONTON — Ren Alva is no stranger to leaving a good tip. The Edmonton university student believes in tipping service workers for a job well done, even leaving more during the holidays and after special events. But the 22-year-old from Bahrain was taken aback during a recent visit to a U-pick berry farm, where he ... Read More »
1 responseFor trappers, the land is their office — wildfires have them bracing for the worst
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
WINNIPEG — Some trappers are expecting “catastrophic losses” to their food and financial security this year, as Canada’s second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up in flames. The latest figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest fires have torn through 78,000 square kilometres of land, with most of ... Read More »
1 responseRetaliatory tariff turnaround puts Ottawa in better negotiating spot: LeBlanc
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
WASHINGTON — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the decision to drop retaliatory tariffs puts Ottawa in a better position to negotiate changes to U.S. President Donald Trump’s devastating duties on key sectors and eases tensions ahead of a review of a critical continental trade agreement. “Our responsibility as the government is to get the ... Read More »
1 responseHaitians in Springfield were thrust into the spotlight — now they’re bracing to leave
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
SPRINGFIELD — Viles Dorsainvil looks down at his hands — pauses — and says he doesn’t know what his future will look like. The soft-spoken 39-year-old’s hesitant voice echoes the anxiety of thousands of Haitians in his small Ohio city who were promised safety and employment in the United States. They are now scrambling after ... Read More »
1 responseAdvocates against HIV criminalization decry Carney silence on reform Trudeau promised
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — HIV activists say there is mounting frustration in communities affected by the virus, amid near-silence from the federal government nearly 10 years after the Liberals pledged to reform laws surrounding HIV disclosure. “We’re coming up on a decade,” said Muluba Habanyama, head of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization. “There definitely has ... Read More »
1 responseContributing to war and peace: Canada’s role in Ukraine explained
By Canadian Press on August 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa is watching closely as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to play peacemaker in the war in Ukraine. Canada has volunteered to play a role in helping maintain peace in Ukraine, if a ceasefire deal can be reached between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the fighting that ... Read More »
1 responseConsumers could benefit from dropped tariffs on U.S. goods, but unions raise concerns
By Canadian Press on August 22nd, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada’s move to drop many retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods could lead to lower prices for consumers, but union leaders worry it could undermine this country’s bargaining position in ongoing trade talks. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that Canada will drop some retaliatory tariffs on American products to match U.S. tariff exemptions ... Read More »
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