CANADA

BY LEE HARDING Optimism is beginning to return to owners of small businesses that survived the pandemic, according to a new survey. But things are far from rosy, and government programs still…

The Thompson Rivers University campus in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Courtesy Thompson Rivers University) BY JUSTINA WHEALE An organization that defends academic freedom in Canada is raising the alarm over the second suspension of…

Young people living in high-income households could receive $13.3 billion from CERB BY SHANE MILLER The coming transition from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit to Employment Insurance raises the issue of the lack…

By Michael Zwaagstra Commentary Recently, several provinces announced their back-to-school plans for this fall. While there are some variations, the common theme is that students will return to in-person learning,…

(Reuters) – Air Canada said on Friday it would weigh possible cancellations of aircraft orders from Boeing and Airbus after COVID-19 crippled air travel and pushed the carrier into a second-quarter loss.…

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Friday extended a measure barring most foreign travelers from entering the country and launched a new contact tracing app as part of its fight to control the…

(Reuters) – Canada‘s attorney general says the requirements for extraditing Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States on charges of bank fraud have been met, documents submitted in…

BY LEE HARDING The Conservative Party leadership race is still up for grabs, despite a recent poll showing that Peter MacKay has more support than his three opponents combined, strategists and…

Nearly 200 Chinese-Candians gather in front of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto to protest Beijing’s coverup of the virus outbreak and calling for the end of communist rule in China,…

BY JASON UNRAU Two weeks before Federal Court Justice Ann Marie McDonald struck down the Safe Third Country Agreement’s application in Canada on constitutional grounds, California’s 9th District Court of Appeals backed an…