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Flight attendants at WestJet have voted overwhelming in favour of strike action that could affect travel over the August long weekend. Here’s what to know. What is the status of the strike? The flight attendants’ union announced on July 15 that its 4,400 members had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. Turnout for the…

New polls on both sides of the border have found that a majority of both Canadians and Americans are upset with the ongoing trade war between the two countries. But the Canadian poll also found a decreasing number of Canadians are hopeful that Mark Carney can manage to negotiate a good deal for this country…

Business and financial leaders across the country still expect some growth in the Canadian economy by the end of the year, despite listing trade tensions as a top downside risk. The Bank of Canada’s Market Participants Survey for the second quarter, released on Monday , gauged the economic outlooks of 26 financial market participants from…

An Ontario woman has been awarded $400,000 in damages for intimate partner violence suffered at the hands of her husband, the first award of its kind since a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling in May recognized such violence as a new civil wrong. Justice Susan Vella of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released…

For all the challenges Canada’s economy has faced in recent years, the Canadian consumer has remained “resilient” in adversity. “Consumer confidence surveys have rarely looked worse. Wages for many workers are barely keeping pace with prices. And yet spending keeps climbing on both sides of the border,” said Helen Lao, an economist at CIBC Capital…

The Toronto Police Service reported gunfire outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto on Monday morning, nearly five months after the building itself was shot at in what was described as a “national security incident.” Officers already on site “heard a firearm being discharged in the area” at 4:46 a.m. and located evidence of such…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Canadians have been focused on Donald Trump’s hounding them about becoming the “51st state” and squeezing their cross-border trade, the U.S. president has been quietly fiddling around with the rules for waters along the Canada-U.S. border. In late April, the president signed House Joint Resolution 140 into law, rolling back a…

Canada’s emergency doctors are feeling demoralized and defeated by a “broken” health system and one in 10 are exiting the profession, two bleak trends threatening to worsen the country’s ER crisis, according to a new study. For many emergency doctors, “the future of emergency medicine was hopeless, with no possibility of recovery,” the authors wrote,…

Jewish community voices are reprising their warnings of intensifying and unchecked antisemitism in Toronto after two Jewish-owned bakery and restaurant chain locations were damaged in separate incidents Sunday morning, one by gunfire. The Toronto Police Service said the first occurred at 8:12 a.m. at a business near the intersection of Yonge Street and St. Clair…

The Waterloo region is known worldwide for one reason: it builds world-class tech companies and, with good cause, is often called Canada’s Silicon Valley. Behind the success stories like BlackBerry, OpenText and Arctic Wolf, there’s a powerful ecosystem at play: Perimeter Institute, the deep-science and big-idea pillar; Communitech, the practical, membership-driven startup hub; and Velocity,…