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it froze his account “in error” — almost two weeks after the 36-year-old was shocked to find about $7,800 had been withdrawn in…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…
Birth control will become free for all Manitobans with a prescription as of Oct. 1, Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara announced on Thursday. The Manitoba pharmacare program will cover the full cost of about 60 commonly used birth-control methods, including the pill, intrauterine devices, hormone injections and others. “Costs should never be a barrier to you receiving the…
It is “entirely unacceptable” for parties in a looming nationwide railway shutdown to risk sabotaging Canada’s economic progress, finance minister Chrystia Freeland says. “It is entirely unacceptable for anyone to get in the way of that economic progress that we have all been making and that has been so hard-fought and so hard-won,” Freeland told…
Wildfires in Alberta last summer burned more area than any previous fire season and a new study shows hot, dry conditions and an unusual amount of fires started by lightning were major contributing factors. These findings come from a new study of the 2023 Alberta wildfires, published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Jen Beverly,…
Police in Halifax say an officer had to shoot and kill three dogs that had allegedly attacked a woman in a residence. Halifax Regional Police say they first responded to an animal attack in the 0-199 block of Fredrick Street at around 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around…
The head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they’ll be expected to follow them. ATA president Jason Schilling said about two weeks before most kindergarten to Grade 12 students go back to class, it’s unclear why…
