New regulations on refunds for air passengers are coming into force this week, but consumer advocates and airlines are raising concerns about the rules. Since 2019, federal rules have required airlines to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights when those disruptions happen for reasons the airlines themselves can control. Starting Sept. 8, airlines will …

With Parliament getting ready for the return of MPs, the Liberal cabinet is kicking off three days of meetings in Vancouver today to hash out the government’s fall playbook, with the rising cost of living and the state of the economy expected to top the agenda. “The tone going into this is getting …

Quebec has three per cent of the world’s fresh water, but municipalities west of the island of Montreal are increasingly concerned about their supply. Officials want the next government to force industries to pay more for the water they use. Once a week, municipal workers in the town of Saint-Lazare, …

Lisa Tsotsos has been trying to bury her father for eight months now — and as the emotional weight of the ordeal and her legal bills pile up — she says she’s starting to lose hope. Her dad, Louis, died of COVID-19 complications on Jan. 15. But instead of being buried …

After some jumbo-sized interest rate hikes, there are likely a lot of Canadians who would like the Bank of Canada to just quit it already. Many in the real-estate business, some who want to lend you money or sell you investments, would be pleased if we all agreed that recent central bank rate hikes were …

ਗਗਨਦੀਪ ਅਰੋੜਾ ਲੁਧਿਆਣਾ, 6 ਸਤੰਬਰ ਇਥੇ ਅੱਜ ਤੜਕੇ ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ ਰੋਡ ‘ਤੇ ਤੇਜ਼ ਰਫ਼ਤਾਰ ਕਾਰ ਖੰਬੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੱਜਣ ਕਾਰਨ 5 ਵਿਅਕਤੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਮੌਤ ਹੋ ਗਈ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ 3 ਬੱਚੀਆਂ ਵੀ ਸ਼ਾਮਲ ਹਨ। ਔਰਤ ਗੰਭੀਰ ਫੱਟੜ ਹੈ, ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਸੀਐੱਮਸੀ ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਵਿੱਚ ਭਰਤੀ ਕਰਵਾਇਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਮ੍ਰਿਤਕਾਂ ਦ ਪਛਾਣ ਰਾਜੇਸ਼, ਮਾਹੀ (5), …

Warning: This story contains sexually graphic details that may be disturbing to readers Hockey Canada is covering the cost of a third-party investigator hired to look into allegations that a group of men on the 2003 World Junior hockey team sexually assaulted a woman in Halifax during a tournament nearly …

Chileans resoundingly rejected a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago, dealing a stinging setback to President Gabriel Boric who argued the document would have ushered in a progressive era. With 99 per cent of the votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, …

Volunteers and scientists are in the midst of a six-day “bio blitz” in Vancouver’s False Creek, collecting water samples as an initial step toward cleaning up the inlet between Science World and English Bay.  The project, running until Wednesday, is a collaboration between local non-profit False Creek Friends, scientists from the Hakai Institute …

The RCMP feared that serving Mounties sympathetic to the convoy protest against pandemic measures in Ottawa earlier this year might leak operational plans to protesters, says an internal threat advisory obtained by CBC News. “The potential exists for serious insider threats,” says the Feb. 10 advisory from the RCMP’s ideologically motivated criminal intelligence team. “Those who have …