MORINVILLE - Hundreds of protesters chanted "Down, down with corporations" outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta's plan to build a data centre. The morning protest took place in Morinville, a to...

MONTREAL - Montreal police are investigating after a fire heavily damaged a kosher restaurant overnight Saturday in the city's Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Police said the case is being investigated as arson and that all hypotheses rem...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of travellers are left looking for alternative options as 4,400 WestJet flight attendants went on strike this morning. WestJet and their roughly 4,400 flight attendants are at loggerheads with top issues at the bargaining table includ...

HALIFAX - Thousands of passengers are trying to navigate the cancellation process as WestJet halts hundreds of flights due to a strike by its 4,400 flight attendants. The airline operates more than 600 flights per day and says the travel of 250,000 pe...

WestJet's 4,400 flight attendants went on strike early Sunday morning, with the airline's flights halted on a busy summer travel weekend after the carrier and union failed to reach a new contract. Over the past three years, strikes by Air Canada flight...

OTTAWA - Todd Lewis, a Saskatchewan senator, farmer and agricultural sector advocate has died at the age of 65. Raymonde Gagné, the speaker of the Senate, announced Lewis's death Saturday afternoon and called him a "steadfast champion of Saskatchewan'...

After failing to reach a deal on a new contract, WestJet's 4,400 flight attendants are now on strike. Both CUPE Ontario, the union representing the flight attendants, and airline announced the move after a strike deadline passed early Sunday morning. ...

VERNON - A wildfire fanned by 115-kilometre-per-hour winds razed homes along the west side of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. Video and photos posted online showed flames in the night sky engulfing propert...

OTTAWA - Canada's Conservative leader is calling on Ottawa to designate an Iran-backed militant group as a terrorist entity after one of its members was accused of contributing to an attack on a Canadian synagogue, as well as the March shooting at the ...

OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she thinks the Greens can pull off an upset in one of the upcoming byelection races by campaigning on Liberal rollbacks of climate policy. The Greens are running Shelley Luce - an environmental scientist w...

CALGARY - WestJet's 4,400 flight attendants went on strike early Sunday morning, and the airline halted all flights on a busy summer travel weekend after the carrier and union failed to reach a new contract. Both CUPE, the union representing the worker...

MONTREAL - An animal-rights activist from Saskatchewan is among those detained off the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, on a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. The Icelandic Coast Guard boarded the protest ves...

TORONTO - Some travellers headed into the long weekend on edge, as WestJet began its first round of cancellations ahead of a possible strike by flight attendants. The airline announced early Saturday morning that 81 of the day's scheduled flights were ...

Air travellers planning to fly WestJet may be concerned about potential disruptions from a strike, with dozens of flights already cancelled. The airline scrapped 81 scheduled flights for Saturday, as a work stoppage looms for 4,400 flight attendants a...

Will Unruh says the 13 bison he cares for at his ranch near the shores of British Columbia's Green Lake know that something is amiss. Smoke from a nearby wildfire is in the air, and they are staying close. "They're hanging out right in this little corr...

MONTREAL - Four months into the job, NDP Leader Avi Lewis is still in no rush. Since winning the leadership of a party knocked to its knees in the 2025 federal election, Lewis has maintained his immediate priority is preparing the NDP for an election -...

TORONTO - Dr. Julia Carroll feels like the progress made over years of educating people how to protect their skin from sun damage is sliding backwards. "Two different times in June, I had patients of mine that were in showing me texts on their phone o...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has approved a $30-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over historical claims of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at two schools in Metro Vancouver run by the Catholic Church. The court approve...

A congressman from Washington State says the U.S. Coast Guard should review and update oil spill response plans as news of a planned pipeline from Alberta to B.C. would increase oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea. Rep. Rick Larsen says he sent a let...

RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Mounties say raising a sunken fishing charter in the Straight of Georgia near Richmond, B.C., where six people are presumed drowned, needs to be done carefully as the vessel is considered evidence in their investigation. P...

OTTAWA - The federal government is providing more than $4 million in funding to support people affected by the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in February. A statement from Public Safety Canada says part of the funds will go to priorities identif...

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking for input from Canadians about the transparency of artificial intelligence systems. In an online post featuring an AI-generated video of the CN Tower launching into the air like a rocket, Artificial Intelligenc...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court has given the provincial government six months to reform laws that allow directors of mental health facilities to consent to psychiatric treatments for people who are involuntarily admitted for care. The ...

OTTAWA - The head of the Bank of Canada is defending the central bank's use of replacement workers during a strike involving security officers. In a decision issued last week, the Canada Industrial Relations Board said the Bank of Canada contravened th...

OTTAWA - Canada is imposing a temporary tariff on imports of some wood products as Ottawa awaits the findings of a probe into possible harmful practices in the global market. The federal government said in a news release that Canada will impose a 25 pe...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it has approved the Crawford Nickel Mine project in northern Ontario. Announcing the approval in a news release Friday, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin said "the potential effects within federal jurisdiction are...

NORTH VANCOUVER - Grinder, a massive grizzly bear who fascinated locals and tourists alike on Grouse Mountain, has died. He was adopted as a cub after being orphaned and became a longtime companion for Coola, another orphan who arrived around the same...

OTTAWA - The heads of two major international unions are calling on U.S. President Donald Trump's top trade official to reconsider proposed tariffs on Canadian imports. The Trump administration's threatened new round of 50 per cent tariffs on a range o...