Around Canada

As a growing number of Canadians once again find themselves cramming public transit and clogging highways to get to their workplaces, you might be wondering: is remote work gone for good? More and more workplaces are calling workers back into the office. First, they forced office workers to stay home, …

Lack of privacy checks in $68M project raises ‘red flags,’ say lawyers Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada partnered with the Canada Border Services Agency and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada to revamp Canada’s asylum system, but failed to complete mandatory privacy checks before starting the project. Those safeguards …

A small gathering at an Ontario cemetery Saturday commemorated the 80th anniversary of the defection of Igor Gouzenko, an event considered by many historians to mark the start of the Cold War.  Soviet cipher clerk stole secret documents in 1945, revealing spy ring in Canada. For 20 years, the grave …

“The Ikhwan (Arabic for “brethren”) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers (Muslims) so that it is eliminated and God’s religion …

Tenants of a Charlottetown rental complex in a prime location across from the University of Prince Edward Island say they’ve been offered thousands of dollars to leave their homes after a new owner took over. Many of the Browns Court and University Ave. units have low rents — but for …

Police are investigating a crash on Highway 11 where a cyclist was killed early Sunday morning. (Jacob Estrin/CBC) A cyclist is dead after a fatal crash with a vehicle in East Gwillimbury, about 10 kilometres north of Aurora, where police say the victim may have been run over more than …

The ZEV mandate is being delayed and subject to a 60-day review. But deliberations on the mandate will be part of a larger review aimed at designing a new “climate competitiveness” strategy — upon which a lot, both politically and practically, might now be riding.  A lot is now riding …

As some federal and provincial politicians argue that Canada’s temporary foreign worker program is stopping young Canadians from finding good-paying jobs, some experts say migrant workers aren’t to blame and that other immigration streams could be the problem. Pierre Poilievre, David Eby call on Ottawa to reform or cancel contentious …

Air Canada flight attendants on Saturday overwhelmingly voted against the airline’s latest wage offer, their union said — a vote that’s expected to have no impact on flight operations.  ‘Issue is now in mediation and, if necessary, will be resolved in arbitration,’ union says. Air Canada flight attendants on Saturday …

Organizations in Nunavut are hiring hunters to catch and supply country food, in an effort to tackle rampant food insecurity.  Iqaluit food centre pays hunters to catch country food for people facing food insecurity. At a store in Iqaluit, Ainia Nooshoota is trimming the fat from a batch of narwhal …