An upcoming byelection in Montreal will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections, breaking a record set earlier this summer in Toronto. At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot for the Sept. 16 byelection in LaSalle—Emard—Verdun, according to Elections Canada. Seventy-nine of them are linked to the Longest Ballot…
The B.C. government has set the maximum allowable rent increase for next year. Starting Jan. 1, landlords will be able to raise rents by a maximum of three per cent, which is down from 3.5 per cent for this current year. The province says next year’s maximum allowable rent increase is tied to the rate…
Traffic at Canada’s two largest railways is slated to resume Monday as a rail work stoppage comes to an end following a Saturday decision from the federal labour board. Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City shut down railways last Thursday, locking out workers and disrupting freight traffic countrywide and commuter lines in…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 24, 2024 5:06 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A once stuck 138-metre cargo ship near Montreal has now been freed. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says two tugboats successfully towed the Dutch ship that had been blocking traffic in the St. Lawrence…
Evan Nobles positions his driver as best as he can, steps forward, and tees off. An object glides through the air toward the hole, and lands with grace about 200 feet away. This may sound like your average golf game, but it’s not. It’s disc golf. “It’s just like ball golf,” Nobles said, as he…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicks off a three-day cabinet retreat in Halifax on Sunday. The themes will be fairness and Canada-U.S. relations, but the feelings are all about déjà vu. A year ago in Charlottetown, the cabinet hoped its annual post-summer retreat and the massive cabinet shuffle that preceded it would give new life to…
We usually don’t think about what happens after we flush our waste, but a team of B.C. researchers is experimenting with ways to convert our sewage into energy. The team has been working both in the lab and at the sprawling 24-acre Lulu Island sewage treatment site in Richmond, B.C., where they’ve built a high-tech…
By Jordan Prentice Global News Posted August 23, 2024 12:48 pm Updated August 23, 2024 12:59 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A kestrel falcon that survived a B.C. wildfire last summer is set to return home after extensive rehabilitation at the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation (AIWC). The…
A Richmond, B.C., man is being offered compensation after TD Bank says thousands of dollars were taken from him in a case of mistaken identity. The bank apologized to Le Zhang on Thursday, saying it froze his account “in error” — almost two weeks after the 36-year-old was shocked to find about $7,800 had been withdrawn in…
Lately, Karine Boudreau has toyed with the idea of quitting. For most of her 18-year career as a school psychologist, the thought of doing something else never crossed her mind. But in the last four years, she’s been feeling stretched too thin to do right by the students. “The satisfaction in my job is harder…
