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Residents living under flight corridors worry about greater disturbances as ADM plans to accommodate increased passenger capacity.

A green Christmas is in the forecast for many parts of Canada, but even without the threat of poor weather, airports say they have prepared for possible headaches.

In preparation for the winter, Canadian airlines and airport say they have rolled out a series of measures from boosting staff, advanced snowplows to real-time weather monitoring.

To deal with a backlog of visitor visa applications, the government waived some entry requirements

Trudeau International Airport cannot accommodate existing traffic levels, and congestion is expected to get worse when construction aimed at fixing the problem begins in 2024

Bedbugs sightings have increased all over Paris. Take precautions, but dont panic, an expert says.

Despite Canadas efforts to slow the stream of asylum seekers across its borders, refugee claims in the country have only risen. The phenomenon is no better illustrated than at the Montreal airport, where the number of asylum seekers attempting entry has exploded five-fold since 2019.

A widespread power outage affected large swaths of the western side of Montreal Thursday afternoon. By early evening, most of the outages had been resolved. On the Island of Montreal, more than 198,000 customers were affected by 169 different outages. Another 17,500 clients were affected in Montérégie.

The outage happened at around 3:30 p.m., affecting about 200,000 clients, mostly in western Montreal and the West Island. By 7 p.m., fewer than 2,000 customers were still without power.

The federal government moved this week to bolster accountability at airports, introducing new legislation that would compel them to cough up more information on their performance.