A brand of yogurt sold at Costco has been recalled due to mould, says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The federal agency’s notification affects 24-packs of Greek yogurt under Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand with the best before date of Aug. 10, 2024, marked as “2024 AU 10.” The printed UPC code is “0 96619 22215 5.” The…
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has denied a bail request from disgraced musician Jacob Hoggard while his lawyers mount another appeal of his sexual assault conviction. In a decision released Friday, Justice Jill Copeland said she does not believe the former Hedley frontman has a strong leave application to the Supreme Court of Canada…
A Canadian man accused of killing a woman from Dawson Creek, B.C., while both were in Mexico, has been found not guilty by a court in that country. Mexican police found 23-year-old Kiara Agnew dead in a laundry room at a resort in Play del Carmen south of Cancun, amid possible signs of violence, on March 3, 2023. The…
British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses. Federal Health Minister Mark Holland said B.C.’s portion of the $1.5-billion national plan is estimated to be $195 million, and under the memorandum of understanding, funding could begin by April once the legislation makes…
Come together for the children’s sake. That was the blunt message the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gave the federal government and First Nations organizations as the latest hearing in a complex, 17-year-old human rights complaint concluded Thursday in Ottawa. “I believe that the collective work of everyone has moved Canada in the right direction,” said…
Air Canada is asking the federal government to be ready to intervene in its labour talks with its pilots as the time remaining before a potential shutdown runs short. Airline spokesperson Christophe Hennebelle said Air Canada is committed to negotiations but faces “unreasonable wage demands” from the pilots union that it can’t meet. Starting Sunday, the two…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won’t say whether he would keep the consumer carbon price if his party forms government at the next election. Speaking to reporters in Montreal on Thursday, Singh criticized both the Liberals and the Conservatives over their approaches to fighting climate change. “We want to see an approach to fighting the climate…
OTTAWA: Health Canada has issued a recall for vitamins and medication sold by a Canadian pharmaceutical brand, according to notices this week. The agency has warned consumers to avoid taking certain tablets of Vitamin D3, acetaminophen and telmisartan tablets from Quebec’s JAMP Pharma. “Affected lots may contain overweight or underweight tablets,” read the notice for the vitamin D3….
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says a resident who died in August of brain inflammation had the eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, a mosquito-borne disease that’s rarely spread to humans. Like the West Nile virus, EEE is typically transmitted between wild birds and mosquitoes, according to OPH. It sometimes infects horses, hence its name, but is seldom passed on to…
Standing by the docks in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday morning, Liberal MP Alexandre Mendes told Radio-Canada she came to this week’s Liberal caucus retreat with a message from her constituents: “dozens and dozens” of them were “adamant” the Liberal Party needed a new leader. Speaking later to CBC’s Power & PoliticsMendes said it was hard…
