Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - The prospect of a reignited trade dispute with the United States over Canadian softwood lumber exports has British Columbia looking for new customers in China and India. Mike de Jong, B.C.&...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 29 --- FEDS APPROVE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is approving Kinder Morgan’s proposal to triple the capacity of its Tra...

QUEBEC - Canada must create a loan guarantee program in order to ensure the country’s lumber producers continue to have access to the U.S. market, Quebec’s economy minister said Tuesday. D...

OTTAWA - A bid by the Senate finance committee to amend the Trudeau government’s signature income tax bill has been ruled out of order. Speaker George Furey has ruled that unelected senators don...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s auditor general conjured up the gory scene of hanging meat carcasses dripping blood next to ready-to-eat bologna and pepperoni, as she called for stronger measures ...

REGINA - Premier Brad Wall says he would like to make everyone in Saskatchewan an automatic organ donor unless they opt out. Wall said he wants to bring in a system of presumed consent for organ donat...

VANCOUVER - For the first time police in Vancouver have linked a fatal overdose to the highly toxic drug carfentanil. Officials say a drug sample was seized from an East Vancouver home where a 39-year...

MONTREAL - A battle is brewing in Quebec as Junex attempts to become the province’s first oil producer in a century. Environmentalists say they’ll strongly oppose the company’s (TSXV...

VICTORIA - About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government int...

TORONTO - Police are looking for a man they allege sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman outside the stadium after Sunday’s Grey Cup in Toronto. Toronto police say the incident occurred around ...