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Five Canadian provinces boost their minimum wage, Alberta now lowest
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
Five provinces are increasing their minimum wage today to support workers amid affordability issues. The hikes will apply to Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The provinces have tied their increases to Canada’s steadily growing consumer price index, which is an indicator of inflation. Ontario’s minimum wage is now $17.60 per hour, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unions to converge in downtown Vancouver in push for B.C. public service contract
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
VANCOUVER — The union representing British Columbia’s public service workers says it expects to see thousands of people in downtown Vancouver today in a show of solidarity over its contract dispute with the provincial government. The BC General Employees’ Union says members of other unions from across the province will join its workers in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Almost half of Canadians say they have seen systemic racism in their province: poll
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Almost half of Canadians polled say they have observed evidence of systemic racism in their province, a new survey suggests. The Leger poll of 1,627 people, conducted between Aug. 29 and 31 for the Association for Canadian Studies, says 49 per cent of Canadians reported having observed evidence of systemic racism — racism ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Union leader Rob Ashton to announce NDP leadership run
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Rob Ashton, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, is scheduled to announce his intention to run for the NDP leadership this morning in Toronto. Ashton is billing himself as the “the first working-class labour candidate” in the race. He will join Alberta MP Heather McPherson, documentarian Avi Lewis and activist Yves ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada in “investment crisis” business council says in federal budget submission
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — The Business Council of Canada says Canada is in an “investment crisis” but warns prosperity can’t be achieved by taking on more debt. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, the council’s president and CEO Goldy Hyder said if the federal government intends on financing investment by incurring more debt, then it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Handling of sex crime allegations at N.S. youth detention centre under scrutiny
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is denying allegations that staff at a youth detention centre were repeatedly told a swim instructor was sexually abusing incarcerated residents before he left his job of 29 years in 2017. The assertion is part of a notice of defence submitted in July 2020 by the province in response ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!All three beached sperm whales in P.E.I. dead: conservation group
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
All three sperm whales stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island have died, a marine rescue organization says. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, has said three sperm whales became beached on Saturday night near Hardy’s Channel at East Bideford, P.E.I. She said one died not long after it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photo Gallery: Truth and Reconciliation Day
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
Canadians marked the fifth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Tuesday, a day meant to reflect on the legacy of residential schools. The residential school era is the period between 1857 and 1996 when 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend church-run, government-funded schools. They were barred from speaking their languages in institutions often ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada Post strike prompts Elections Yukon to make changes ahead of vote
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
Elections Yukon is making changes to how some people can vote in the upcoming territorial election in response to the ongoing Canada Post strike. Chief electoral officer Maxwell Harvey said he expects hundreds of special ballots to be sent out via courier to voters outside the territory, complete with a return courier envelope that will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hundreds gather in Montreal to reflect on Canada’s legacy of residential schools
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
MONTREAL — Fay-Lisa Gagné, who hails from Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan, has complicated feelings about the word reconciliation. As a child she was placed into care with a francophone family in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, where she could only speak English. Her mother attended residential school, and her four siblings were lost to the 60s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Stephen Harper, has died at age 62
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
OTTAWA — Nigel Wright, a longtime Canadian businessman and former top aide to prime minister Stephen Harper, has died. Onex, the private equity firm where Wright worked for nearly three decades, announced his death in a statement on Tuesday. The firm did not provide a cause of death. Wright was 62. The firm’s president and ... Read More »
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