A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared insolvent the North American branch of battery maker Northvolt as the provincial government looks to recover $260-million owed to it by the company.
Justice Janet Michelin on Friday placed Northvolt Batteries North America under creditor protection following a request earlier in the week from the Quebec government.
The 26-year-old suspect of a mass stabbing attack in Manitoba was out on bail in his rural community of Hollow Water First Nation when he allegedly killed his sister and seriously injured eight other people, including a police officer, this week.
Court records verified by The Globe and Mail show that Tyrone Simard had a history of prior convictions for offences dating back to 2016, including several stints in custody andon supervised probation for assault.
A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year.
There are “performance and reliability” issues with trains on the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit system as they are pushed through their paces, said Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay.
Higher education reporter Joe Friesen spoke with The Decibel podcast about the factors driving the gender gap in higher education. Columnist Marsha Lederman also weighed in on what is lost when fewer men go to university.
As classes begin for students at Canadian universities this month, one groupwill stand out for its relative underrepresentation: young men.
Three British Columbia wildfires, including a blaze that forced this week’s closing of the Coquihalla Highway, have prompted local officials to issue new evacuation orders.
The Fraser Valley Regional District says it has declared a state of local emergency and issued an evacuation order for the Coquihalla Lakes Lodge and the Coquihalla Summit Snowmobile Club site due to the Mine Creek fire that shut the highway on Wednesday.
A conciliation meeting is set for Monday in the contract dispute between Halifax’s Dalhousie University and its faculty association with more than 1,000 members.
The Dalhousie Faculty Association and the university both say they welcome the opportunity to get back to the bargaining table.
The Canadian government is providing $3-million in humanitarian assistance to help people directly affected by recent earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan.
Randeep Sarai, the Secretary of State for International Development, made the announcement on Friday, saying the money will be allocated to organizations working within the country.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced billions of dollars in financial aid and other measures to help Canada adjust to what he called a “rupture” to the global world order.
The suite of programs and changes unveiled Friday include hitting pause on a mandatory sales target for electric vehicles going into effect for the 2026 model year, a $5-billion “strategic response fund” that aims to prioritize supports for sectors exposed in tariff disputes, financial aid for the canola sector and the expansion of employment insurance.
A Quebec City couple who dedicated their professional lives to restoring artifacts have been confirmed as the two Canadians killed in a funicular crash in Lisbon that also left 14 others dead.
Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications confirmed Friday that Blandine Daux and André Bergeron, who both worked at the provincial conservation centre, died Wednesday when the railcar derailed in Portugal’s capital.
Good morning.Just as the Toronto International Film Festival has something for everyone, the 11-day event requires the wide-ranging work of many different hands. More on the heroic effort below, plus news updates from the Middle East and Portugal. But first:
Canada had almost 1.6 million people unemployed in August as the economy lost thousands of jobs and its unemployment rate scaled over a nine-year peak barring the pandemic years, data showed on Friday.
Its unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points in August to 7.1 per cent, a level last seen in May, 2016, if the COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021 were excluded, Statscan said
The economy shed 65,500 jobs in August, largely in part-time work, it said, and added that this was fuelled not only by lower hiring but also some layoffs with the layoff rate rising to 1 per cent in August, compared with 0.9 per cent observed 12 months earlier.
Signage mark the Statistics Canada offiices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada says it is working with the United States Census Bureau and plans to release the December merchandise data on March 6.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
As the helicopter turned toward Peyto Glacier, located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, John Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped.
Prof. Pomeroy, a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of the Global Water Futures Programme and Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, walks across Peyto Glacier in Alberta on September 4, 2024.
The Saskatchewan government said on Thursday it plans to appeal a case it recently lost in the lower courts to the Supreme Court of Canada.
And, if that’s granted, the province added an unusual request: It wants the top court to combine the proposed appeal with a major Supreme Court case already in progress on Quebec’s secularism law.