Author Archives: Taylor MacPherson

MONTREAL - A transit strike is set to kick off this morning that could disrupt bus and subway service in Montreal for the next two weeks. The planned strike by the Montreal transit agency's maintenanc...

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says it's hiring more staff at its call centres and expanding its use of artificial intelligence as part of a 100-day plan to improve its services. Earlier this mont...

TORONTO - Some doctors and bioethicists are raising concerns about a Toronto hospital's partnership with a company founded by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk. University Health Network announced earlier th...

OTTAWA - Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis is expected to officially announce his intention to run for the federal NDP leadership today. Lewis is expected to release a video later today and hold a fo...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say their seizure of $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an online platform is the largest in Canadian history. The national police force says the exchange platform - TradeOgr...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help to pay down the deficit in later years. He tells The Ca...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives have introduced a private members' bill in the House of Commons that would make the murder of an intimate partner a first-degree crime. Conservative public safety critic Fra...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico, which starts today. The agreement will co...

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...