Catherine Morrison

4 days ago | castanet.net | Kyle Duggan |Catherine Morrison |Dylan Robertson |Allison Jones

A top federal official said fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion — and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued system. Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement Canada, said the alternative to running the Phoenix system in tandem with its replacement, Dayforce, would have been worse.

5 days ago | castanet.net | Chuck Chiang |Catherine Morrison |Jack Farrell |Sidhartha Banerjee

Firefighters in Yukon say the wildfire that has put about 100 homes on evacuation alert near Dawson has grown rapidly due to recent weather conditions and is now measured at 15 square kilometres in size. An update posted to Yukon Protective Services' Facebook page says the Quebec Creek fire is now 10 kilometres away from Upper West Dawson, and direct action on the blaze is "difficult" due to the fire's intensity.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Sidhartha Banerjee |Hannah Alberga

Conservative members of Parliament voted with the minority Liberal government to pass its marquee major projects legislation Friday evening, setting it up to become law before Canada Day. The legislation, also known as the one Canadian economy act, would allow the government to green-light a list of projects that have been deemed to be in the national interest, fast-tracking their approvals. The Liberals have called it the core of the government's domestic economic response to U.S. tariffs.

1 week ago | castanet.net | Barbara Ortutay |John Leicester |Lauran Neergaard |Catherine Morrison

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban — approved by Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — took effect.

1 week ago | castanet.net | John Leicester |Lauran Neergaard |Catherine Morrison |Marc Levy

About once a month, French drone manufacturer Henri Seydoux makes what has become a necessary pilgrimage for many in his business — he goes to Ukraine. Because for drone technology, there is no harder place to survive than the frontlines of the war against Russia’s invasion, where both sides are using unmanned aerial machines of all shapes and sizes to kill and to observe, reshaping modern warfare.