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  • Air Canada rejects blame in $24M gold theft as it faces Brink's lawsuit

    November 20, 2023 - 12:44 PM

    MONTREAL - Air Canada has fired back in a lawsuit by security firm Brink's, saying the airline bears no responsibility for the daring theft of $23.8 million in gold and cash from its facilities at Toronto's Pearson airport earlier this year.

  • Open U.S. land border could drain tourists southward, Canadian operators worry

    November 08, 2021 - 2:23 PM

    MONTREAL - Tourism operators are of two minds about the opening of the U.S. land border Monday.

  • Work camp operator filling need for COVID-19 field hospitals, testing centres

    April 05, 2020 - 7:00 AM

    CALGARY - A Calgary company says it has received more than 100 requests over the past two weeks to set up field hospitals, quarantine accommodations, testing centres and other temporary structures needed for the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Help heads to NYC as experts predict over 100,000 US deaths

    March 31, 2020 - 8:41 PM

    NEW YORK - With refrigerated morgue trucks parked on New York City's streets to collect the surging number of dead, public health officials projected Tuesday that the coronavirus could ultimately kill more than 100,000 people across the U.S. Some states that have become hot spots warn they're running low on ventilators, while two cruise ships pleaded for Florida to allow them to dock to carry off the sick and dead.

  • 21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California

    March 06, 2020 - 8:59 PM

    SAN FRANCISCO - Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus and 19 of them are crew members, Vice-President Mike Pence announced Friday, amid evidence the vessel was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of more than 10 cases during its previous voyage.

  • Event organizers cancel conferences, grapple with coronavirus outbreak

    February 28, 2020 - 12:16 PM

    TORONTO - Organizations across the country are cancelling conferences, fretting about whether to forge ahead with events and considering more health-conscious policies as concerns grow over the recent outbreak of a novel form of coronavirus.

  • Ocean Resort Casino changing hands

    January 10, 2019 - 3:31 PM

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Atlantic City's Ocean Resort Casino is changing hands after just six months of operation, the latest indication that the New Jersey seaside resort may have bitten off more than it can chew when it reopened two shuttered casinos last summer.

  • Nova Scotia announces $120-million surplus, despite extra spending

    July 26, 2018 - 12:41 PM

    HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has tabled its final books for fiscal 2017-18, posting a net surplus of $120 million — even after nearly $479 million in extra spending.

  • Paternity leave, deficit, cybersecurity: what to expect in the 2018 budget

    February 26, 2018 - 12:05 PM

    OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said science, gender equality and preparing Canadians for the jobs of the future will be key themes in Tuesday's federal budget. Here are some more details on what it is expected to contain.

  • Sudden power outage creates 'nightmare' at Atlanta airport

    December 17, 2017 - 9:26 PM

    ATLANTA - A sudden power outage caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility brought the world's busiest airport to a standstill Sunday, grounding more than 1,000 flights in Atlanta just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush. More than 10 hours after the blackout began, authorities announced that electricity had been restored to several areas of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.
  • 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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