Author Archives: Syndicated Content

FORT ST. JOHN - A contractor has been killed and another person hurt in a fire in a gas plant north of Fort St. John, B.C. Alberta-based Tourmaline Oil, which runs the Gundy oil and gas extraction fac...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge of a government ban on firearms that Ottawa considers fit only for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. The Liberals outlawed ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is seeking a new chief medical officer of health as the government says Dr. Mark Joffe's contract has expired. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange's office said in an email Tuesday tha...

The odds of new applications from immigrants being accepted into British Columbia's nominee program this year have dropped to near zero for anyone other than health workers or entrepreneurs. The provi...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's health minister has rejected accusations from a nurses union and the Opposition NDP that some babies from Regina's neonatal intensive care unit were sent to North Dakota for ca...

Canadians' boycott of travel to the U.S. is hitting hard on California's sandy shores, prompting the state's governor to make a social media pitch-plea to come back. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a video this...

TORONTO - Four pedestrians were injured after a vehicle crashed into multiple people on a walkway on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus, police said. The vehicle did not remain at the s...

TORONTO - The driver of a vehicle that struck several pedestrians on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus may have been targeting a specific individual on the walkway before speeding away...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave wa...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia auditor general Kim Adair said Tuesday the provincial government has made substantial progress toward acting on recommendations she made from 2020 to 2022. In the first followup ...