Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - There’s no question: The shock-and-awe approach to trade disputes is having an impact in the early days of the Trump administration, with the stunner of a 219-per-cent duty on Bomba...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept. 27 --- BOMBARDIER HIT HARD IN BOEING DISPUTE Bombardier’s hopes for breaking into the U.S. market has taken a massive blow, with the U.S. Department...

VANCOUVER - A man who lived on the streets of Vancouver as a teenager will push a shopping cart through the city’s rough-and-tumble Downtown Eastside once again on Friday, but this time will mar...

TORONTO - Wide-ranging legislation introduced Wednesday by the Ontario government will require public disclosure of payments that pharmaceutical companies make to doctors, increase inspections for spl...

OTTAWA - The U.S. should join Canada in pushing for higher labour standards in Mexico in the new North American Free Trade Agreement, said a Democratic lawmaker, or else risk a rough ride getting the ...

EDMONTON - An Alberta town is planning to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that ring its outskirts. Hinton, west of Edmonton on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, is ...

OTTAWA - The need to establish a new Indigenous Services ministry could complicate First Nations housing in the short term, but the system will be more streamlined and effective in the long haul, says...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia woman has hit a dead end in her quest for compensation from the Canadian government, whom she accuses of falsely branding her a terrorist and an arms dealer to American ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has just sworn in its next ambassador to Canada at a moment of trade tensions between the countries, with mushrooming disputes running parallel with the renegotiation of...

SASKATOON - The head of Saskatchewan’s RCMP is defending the decision to not chase a stolen truck involved in a fatal collision last week. Assistant commissioner Curtis Zablocki told a provincew...