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B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet this week ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rural B.C. officials receive ‘gratitude’ over landfill resolution before ostrich cull
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
NAKUSP — A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds has been met with “gratitude.” The Regional District of Central Kootenay board resolved “to withhold acceptance, at any landfill” of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.S. health minister admits ‘growing pains’ with new free-parking policy at hospitals
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue. At the big hospitals in Halifax, tensions are growing as unauthorized motorists are routinely taking up too many spots, leaving health-care staff scrambling as they show up for work. Provincial Health Minister Michelle ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
MONTREAL — A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant’s closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs following Amazon’s sudden termination of its Quebec warehouse operations months after workers at a Montreal-area facility unionized with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Big streamers tell CRTC they should have more flexibility than broadcasters on CanCon
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
OTTAWA — A group representing big foreign streaming companies told a CRTC hearing Friday that those companies shouldn’t be expected to fulfil the same responsibilities as traditional broadcasters when it comes to Canadian content. The Motion Picture Association-Canada, which represents large streaming companies like Netflix, Paramount, Disney and Amazon, said the CRTC should be flexible ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City and police say Vancouver festival planning followed rules before attack
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
VANCOUVER — Vancouver’s mayor says everything was done properly to assess the risk at the festival where 11 people were killed in a vehicle attack last month, but it doesn’t mean the steps were enough and they are now rethinking how risk is assessed. A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and police into ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, warns it’s dangerous for Tories
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
OTTAWA — Former Conservative member of Parliament Stockwell Day says Alberta separatism poses a threat to the federal Conservative party — which risks seeing a return to the kind of vote-splitting that was common before the party united in 2003. Day, who was part of Stephen Harper’s cabinet from 2006 to 2011, says he’s “as ... Read More »
1 responseHockey Canada interviews among evidence excluded from ex-junior players’ jury trial
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
Three of the five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 spoke about the events of that night with an investigator hired by Hockey Canada, but those statements are not part of their criminal trial. Prosecutors wanted to use the interviews to cross-examine Michael McLeod, Dillon ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prosecution lays out first-degree murder case in Quebec truck attack that killed 3
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
RIMOUSKI — The case against a Quebec man charged with killing three people with his truck in an eastern Quebec community is straightforward, prosecutor Jérôme Simard told jurors on Friday. “There will be no big twists,” he said in his opening statement in the trial of Steeve Gagnon, who is facing three counts of first-degree ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Commission report recommends Canada Post phase out daily door-to-door mail delivery
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Industrial Inquiry Commission report on the labour dispute at Canada Post recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses, while daily delivery to businesses should be maintained. It also says the moratoriums on rural post office closures and community mailbox conversions should be lifted. The report was called for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Report says Lapu Lapu festival planning followed rules
By Canadian Press on May 16th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A preliminary report by the City of Vancouver and police into last month’s Lapu Lapu Day festival attack says authorities are considering safety enhancements for outdoor events in light of the attack. But the report says planning for the festival appears to have followed prescribed processes, and Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says all ... Read More »
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