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  • What we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse

    March 29, 2024 - 2:10 PM

    BALTIMORE - A cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing the span to collapse and presumably killing six construction workers. On Wednesday, a day after the early-morning crash, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board boarded the ship and planned to recover information from its electronics and paperwork while divers searched for the bodies of workers who were still missing.

  • These companies have laid off Canadian workers in 2024

    March 26, 2024 - 8:26 AM

    Canadians are continuing to be laid off as part of a wave of job cuts that began in 2023 as companies assessed their operations after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic passed.

  • UPS reaches tentative contract with 340,000 unionized workers potentially dodging calamitous strike

    July 25, 2023 - 9:24 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.

  • Stalemate: UPS, Teamsters contract talks break down with each side blaming the other

    July 05, 2023 - 3:32 PM

    Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company's workers broke down early Wednesday with each side blaming the other for walking away from talks.

  • Ukraine says counteroffensive delayed; Britain sending cruise missiles to Kyiv

    May 11, 2023 - 12:45 PM

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine lacks enough Western weapons to succeed without suffering too many casualties.

  • Canada's stockpile of ventilators up from 500 to 27,000 after push to procure them

    March 22, 2023 - 1:00 AM

    Canada's race to procure ventilators for COVID-19 patients in the early days of the pandemic had researchers, scientists, industry and a notable astrophysicist working "night and day"to design machines that could be quickly manufactured domestically.

  • Zelenskyy seeks weaponry in surprise trips to London, Paris

    February 08, 2023 - 2:50 PM

    PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in surprise visits to Britain and France on Wednesday, pushing for fighter jets to battle Russian invaders in a dramatic speech to the U.K. Parliament, and then flying to Paris to meet the French and German leaders over dinner at the Elysee Palace.

  • Quebec tech leaders call for changes to taxation of data centres, other assets

    November 04, 2022 - 12:00 PM

    Tech companies are warning businesses could flee Quebec after a pair of court cases paved the way for property tax bills to jump by more than 250 per cent at data centres, medical clinics and even supermarkets.

  • Ukraine: Russia using 'missile terrorism' in wide attacks

    May 04, 2022 - 6:39 PM

    LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Complaining that the West is "stuffing Ukraine with weapons,” Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply-line targets across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday by proposing a ban on oil imports.

  • Civilians rescued from Mariupol steel plant head for safety

    May 02, 2022 - 6:59 PM

    ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia resumed pulverizing the Mariupol steel mill that has become the last stronghold of resistance in the bombed-out city, Ukrainian fighters said Monday, after a brief cease-fire over the weekend allowed the first evacuation of civilians from the plant.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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