Category Archives: National News

CFIA confirms death of ostrich with 'pre-existing condition' at B.C. farm
EDGEWOOD, B.C. - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says an ostrich that was part of a B.C. flock that was recently issued a last-minute stay of a cull order by the Supreme Court of Canada has died. ...
Canadian Press Oct 04, 2025

Canada Post union says latest contract offer is step backwards
The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation is taking a major step backwards with its latest contract offers. In a statement released Friday, the union says it is disappointe...
Canadian Press Oct 04, 2025

Government says flypast for King's visit to Ottawa cost more than $800,000
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence says the Royal Canadian Air Force flypast during King Charles III's visit to Ottawa this spring cost more than $824,700. The department released a tally of ...
Canadian Press Oct 03, 2025

Canada Post tables new offers to union that include job cut provisions
Canada Post's latest contract offers to striking postal workers has many of the same terms as its "final offers" in May, but removes a signing bonus and now has provisions related to job cuts expected...
Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press Oct 03, 2025

Canada Post tables new offers to striking postal workers
OTTAWA - Canada Post says it has sent new offers to striking postal workers. The offer includes the same 13.59 per cent compounded wage increase over four years that it presented as part of its final ...
Canadian Press Oct 03, 2025

Carney to return to Washington to meet Trump on trade talks
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday as trade negotiations continue. Carney will travel to the United States capital Monday ...
Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press Oct 03, 2025

LeBlanc: No timeline for reaching tariff deals, but talks not at a 'dead end'
OTTAWA - It's futile to predict how long trade talks with President Donald Trump's White House might last, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told the House of Commons trade committee ...
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press Oct 02, 2025

Budget watchdog says home affordability is getting better - but not everywhere
OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog is reporting significant progress in closing Canada's housing affordability gap - but the picture looks very different across the country. Interim Parliamentary Budge...
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press Oct 02, 2025

Liberal MP says it's time to stop the clock on daylight time
OTTAWA - Liberal member of Parliament Marie-France Lalonde wants to call a halt to the annual ritual of springing forward and falling back. The Ottawa-area MP plans to table a private member's bill ne...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Oct 02, 2025

'No one of her stature': Conservationist Jane Goodall remembered in Canada
TORONTO - Jane Goodall is being remembered by Canadians as irreplaceable in her environmental work. The Jane Goodall Institute announced Wednesday that she had died of natural causes while in Californ...
Cassidy McMackon, The Canadian Press Oct 02, 2025
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