Author: Harry Miller

About 350 Stelco steelworkers in Hamilton face layoffs as Cleveland-Cliffs idles finishing lines under 50% U.S. tariffs, with work shifting to Lake Erie Works.

Canadian railways hired Black men as sleeping car porters from the late 1800s but barred them from conductor jobs. After the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters filed a 1953 federal fair employment complaint, George V. Garraway became the first Black conductor on a Canadian railway, in 1954 or 1955 depending on the source.

Canada’s average asking rent fell 4.8% to $2,035 in August, the 23rd straight annual decline, with condo and secondary-market rents dropping the most.

Canada launched Alouette 1, its first satellite, on Sept. 29, 1962. Built to last a year, the ionosphere probe worked for a decade and fed nearly 300 papers.

More than 20 tech and VPN firms, including Toronto’s Tailscale and Windscribe, asked the Senate on Sept. 25 to amend Bill C-22 over backdoor and data-retention risks.

Blues defenceman Logan Mailloux needs hand surgery and will miss at least eight weeks, while Mathew Barzal is not ruled out for the Islanders’ opener.

Canada’s population grew just 0.5% to 41.8 million in the year to July 1, the slowest since 1915-16, as temporary residents fell and young adults declined.

In January 1792, 1,196 Black Loyalists sailed from Halifax for Sierra Leone. Broken land promises, riots and denied rights drove one of Canada’s first exoduses.

An inquest into the 2021 death of Kendal Campeau, a Yellow Quill First Nation man, opened in Burnaby as BC First Nations groups demand prison reform.

The Oilers loaned Josh Samanski to Bakersfield as they set their opening roster, with one more cut possible before Tuesday’s opener against the Canucks.