Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Overtime ban to continue as Canada Post workers vote to reject latest contract offer
Unionized workers at Canada Post have voted to reject the Crown corporation's latest contract offer. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Friday that 68.5 per cent of urban mail carriers who vote...
Aug 02, 2025 A Canada Post employee returns to a delivery depot in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Canada records first case of West Nile virus in 2025
TORONTO - Confirmation of the first human case of West Nile virus acquired in Canada this year arrived just in time for the August long weekend. The Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday that a...
Aug 02, 2025 In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District biologist Nadja Reissen examines a mosquito in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Trump lowers expectations of trade deal with Canada, gives 90-day delay to Mexico
Donald Trump dampened expectations of a deal with Canada materializing at the last minute as his tariff deadline loomed Thursday - but the U.S. president did give a 90-day deadline delay to Mexico. In...
Jul 31, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event to sign the VA Home Loan Program Reform Act into law in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Cenovus encouraged by talks with Carney government but says regulatory hurdles remain
Cenovus Energy Inc. says it is "cautiously optimistic" about the federal government's commitment to building new projects that aim to spearhead economic growth, but the company hopes to see Ottawa cle...
Jul 31, 2025 The Cenovus Christina Lake oilsands facility steam-assisted gravity drainage pad southeast of Fort McMurray, Alta., is shown on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Diabetes Canada calls for federal government to reset pharmacare program
OTTAWA - Advocates for people with diabetes want the federal government to restructure what they see as a flawed pharmacare program. Glenn Thibeault, executive director of government affairs with Diab...
Jul 30, 2025 This Jan. 3, 2009 file photo shows a person with diabetes testing his blood sugar level in Kamen, Germany. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File)
Migrant worker calls proposed spike in housing cost payroll deduction 'wickedness'
OTTAWA - An Ontario migrant farm worker says there is "wickedness" in a federal government proposal that could allow employers to charge workers upwards of 30 per cent of their income for housing. The...
Jul 30, 2025 Migrant workers pick strawberries at a farm in Pont Rouge Que., on Aug. 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
British Columbians told to avoid coast, after Russia quake triggers tsunami advisory
WICKANINISH BEACH, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - British Columbians are being urged to stay away from coastal areas that remain under a tsunami advisory, after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever r...
Jul 30, 2025 A tsunami advisory sign is seen near Wickaninish Beach at Pacific Rim National Park near Tofino, B.C., on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dirk Meissner
Electoral reform, dinosaurs and 'spite': the 'Longest Ballot' protest, explained
OTTAWA - More than 200 candidates are running in the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection, though only a handful have the support of official parties. Most of the rest are linked to a protest movement tha...
Jul 29, 2025
Tax data suggests lethal Canadian arms still being exported to Israel
OTTAWA - Israeli customs data suggests lethal Canadian arms are still being exported regularly to Israel, despite Ottawa's claim that it has halted such shipments. "Canadian military products are deep...
Jul 29, 2025 Yara Shoufani of Palestinian Youth Movement speaks alongside Alex Paterson with Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, left, and Corey Balsam of Independent Jewish Voices during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Grizzly attack in B.C. likely 'defensive', bears to be spared, investigators say
British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says a grizzly attack on a couple in the province's Interior over the weekend was likely "defensive in nature," and it's unlikely the bears were stalkin...
Jul 29, 2025 Two of three orphaned grizzly bear cubs play at the Greater Vancouver Zoo, in Aldergrove, B.C., on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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