Canada
- Monday, 19 August 2024
Privatization concerns sparked by potential new Alberta health-care ‘prototype’
Assahafa.com Alberta Health is currently exploring a proposed "campus" in the city of Airdrie that would see a "one-stop shop"...
- Monday, 19 August 2024
How Canada reached the brink of an unprecedented railway stoppage
Assahafa.com Canadian National Railway, one of Canada's two main rail companies, formally notified the Teamsters union in Canada on Sunday...
- Saturday, 17 August 2024
Tornado touches down in Ayr, Ont., causing heavy damage to business, fire chief says
Assahafa.com A tornado touched down in Ayr, Ont., Saturday morning, the local fire chief says, following an emergency tornado warning...
- Saturday, 17 August 2024
Canadian railways halt cargo ahead of possible lockout
Assahafa.com The country's two main freight railways are turning away a growing number of goods ahead of a potential work...
- Saturday, 17 August 2024
Eastern Montreal boil-water advisory expected to last through the weekend after water main break
Assahafa.com Things are returning to normal after a major water main break flooded parts of south-central Montreal near the Jacques-Cartier Bridge...
- Saturday, 17 August 2024
The threat of climate change demands something more than thoughts, prayers and excuses
Assahafa.com As another Canadian summer brings another round of natural disasters — wildfires in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Newfoundland, flooding in Toronto and Quebec — there is a risk...
- Friday, 16 August 2024
All eyes on Ernesto as storm tracks north toward Atlantic Canada
Assahafa.com After tracking through the Caribbean with damaging winds and torrential rain, Hurricane Ernesto is now moving north. The hurricane will...
- Friday, 16 August 2024
Jasper residents return to wildfire-ravaged townsite as re-entry begins
Assahafa.com Travelling from the east and west, people forced from their homes by a monster wildfire will return to Jasper...
- Friday, 16 August 2024
Ukraine cleared to use armour donated by Canada on Russian territory
Assahafa.com Ukraine is free to use Canadian-donated tanks and armoured vehicles inside Russia, the Department of National Defence said Thursday. The...
- Friday, 16 August 2024
Labour minister rejects CN Rail’s call for binding arbitration as lockout looms
Assahafa.com Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon has rejected CN Rail's request for binding arbitration in the company's labour dispute with Teamsters...
