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A Thunder Bay author has taken home one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards. Jean E. Pendziwol was born in Thunder Bay in 1965 and currently lives in the city. She and illustrator Todd Stewar...

A teen in B.C. has the country's first case of Bird Flu acquired within the country. Officials are trying to determine the source. B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said she they've reac...

Service Canada says it has a plan in case there is a Canada Post labour disruption. They encourage you to set up a My Service Canada Account and sign up for direct deposit to access your benefits and ...

The former premier of British Columbia has died after a battle with cancer. John Horgan won the NDP party a minority government in 2017. He was 65 when he died earlier this week. Horgan became the cou...

Canada Post is preparing to lock out postal workers. The Canadian Union of Public Employees says union members were handed notices just hours after the union issued a 72-hour strike notice Tuesday mor...

Ottawa is stepping in to try and end labour problems at vital shipping corridors in our country. The federal government is calling for binding arbitration to iron out new contracts and resume work at ...

Some of your holiday packages could be delayed. Canada Post workers could go on strike as early as Friday. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers gave Canada Post the 72-hour strike notice this morning....

Cigarette smoking rates continue to decline across Canada, according to the results of a new survey. Insurtech company MyChoice found the number of cigarette smokers fell 18.79 per cent between 2019 a...

Canada's unemployment rate held steady in October at 6.5 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. The agency said employment was little changed on a month-over-month basis with just 15,000 new jobs, ...

How surprising was Donald Trump's U.S. election victory? Peter McKenna is a political science professor at the University of PEI, and says he didn't expect Trump to run away with the race over Vice-Pr...