The federal government will announce up to $40 million for Finnish telecom giant Nokia Thursday to conduct research on 5G wireless technology in Canada. The funding comes as Ottawa is in the middle of a comprehensive national-security review of the potential involvement of Nokia’s Chinese rival, Huawei, in Canada’s eventual fifth-generation mobile network. Ottawa is […]
Canada — as a federation, it’s fractured, but whole. That’s apparent from the latest survey by the Angus Reid Institute, which shows a country where there’s closeness between provinces in one region that cools steadily as you travel further east. But there’s one emotion that appears to unite Confederation: negative feelings about Quebec. In Western Canada, […]
Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum is walking back a comment he made earlier in the week suggesting that detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou had a strong case to avoid extradition to the United States. “I regret that my comments with respect to the legal proceedings of Ms. Meng have created confusion. I misspoke. These […]
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada said investigators have not been able to determine why a crop-dusting plane stalled just before a fiery crash in Saskatchewan last summer that killed the pilot. The board has released its report on the accident that happened on the evening of July 12 near Arborfield, about 260 kilometres […]
Dare Foods says it will close a cookie-making plant on the south shore of Montreal by mid-2020 in a move that will affect about 275 employees. The Ontario-based company said Thursday that it told employees the production of soft cookies would be moved to other facilities across the country. Spokesman Marc Duchesne says the plant […]
Flights were suspended at one of the US’s busiest international airports after multiple sightings of drones at an adjacent airstrip. Two unmanned aircraft were seen at Teterboro Airport, a private facility next to New Jersey’s Newark International, with one pilot telling air traffic controllers a drone passed within nine metres of his plane. Authorities suspended […]
More than a year before the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera pulled off one of the most notorious prison breaks in history, he got word to his associates of how he planned to escape through an unlikely source: his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro. The strategy that Mr. Guzmán crafted — and Ms. Coronel passed […]
The number of Americans without health insurance plunged after Obamacare started. Now, early evidence suggests, it’s beginning to climb again. New polling from Gallup shows that the percentage of uninsured Americans inched up throughout last year. That trend matches other data suggesting that health coverage has been eroding under the policies of the Trump administration. […]
A messy mix of winter weather is hampering commutes and wreaking havoc on Montreal roads and sidewalks. The snowfall on Wednesday, which came right after another snowstorm walloped Quebec, has made it difficult for people to get around the city by car, bus, bicycle or on foot. Montreal police were even forced to close a […]
One of the busiest airports in the country was brought to a standstill on Tuesday evening by reports of a drone flying nearby, showing how a single electronic toy could wreak havoc on an air-travel system already struggling to find viable ways to protect the skies. Newark Liberty International Airport, one of three main airports […]