Category Archives: Canada
Out with NAFTA, in with USMCA: Canada inks new trade deal with U.S., Mexico
WASHINGTON - A new era in North American free trade dawned in the dead of night Sunday as a 14-month NAFTA modernization effort between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico finally came to fruition with just h...
Sep 30, 2018
Out with NAFTA, in with USMCA: Canada inks new trade deal with U.S., Mexico
WASHINGTON - A new era in North American free trade dawned in the dead of night Sunday as a 14-month NAFTA modernization effort between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico finally came to fruition with just h...
Sep 30, 2018
Indigenous underemployment persists but OECD report points to positive changes
WINNIPEG - When Kevin Chief finished his university degree, he wasn’t sure how to land his first real job. The vice-president of the Business Council of Manitoba and former NDP cabinet minister,...
Sep 30, 2018
Potential Calgary 2026 Olympic bid stokes hope for more affordable housing
CALGARY - Affordable housing advocates are hopeful a potential Calgary 2026 Olympic bid could help put a dent in the city’s shortfall. A draft hosting plan unveiled earlier this month by the bid...
Sep 30, 2018
Back-to-back summers of smoke and fire stoke B.C. tourism industry fears
CALGARY - The smoke has cleared after the worst forest fire season in B.C. history but tourism operators fear the reputational damage to their industry will linger far into the future. Hundreds of wil...
Sep 30, 2018
Indigenous underemployment persists but OECD report points to positive changes
WINNIPEG - When Kevin Chief finished his university degree, he wasn’t sure how to land his first real job. The vice-president of the Business Council of Manitoba and former NDP cabinet minister,...
Sep 30, 2018
Potential Calgary 2026 Olympic bid stokes hope for more affordable housing
CALGARY - Affordable housing advocates are hopeful a potential Calgary 2026 Olympic bid could help put a dent in the city’s shortfall. A draft hosting plan unveiled earlier this month by the bid...
Sep 30, 2018
Back-to-back summers of smoke and fire stoke B.C. tourism industry fears
CALGARY - The smoke has cleared after the worst forest fire season in B.C. history but tourism operators fear the reputational damage to their industry will linger far into the future. Hundreds of wil...
Sep 30, 2018
Quebec officials scramble after first confirmed case of fatal deer disease
MONTREAL - Officials in Quebec are banking on a massive cull of the province’s deer population to help prevent the spread of a fatal disease after its first-ever case was detected on a game farm...
Sep 30, 2018
Conservation group blasts province for targeting predators to protect sheep
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is expanding the bighorn sheep hunt in part of the Cariboo region at the same time it targets the animals’ natural predators to protect two herds in a...
Sep 30, 2018
