Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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B.C. task force aims to grow agriculture, food processing industries
British Columbia is launching a task force focused on growing the agriculture and food processing industries after years of struggle due to climate, labour concerns and now the threat of tariffs from ...
Feb 20, 2025
B.C. tree fruit growers get new $10M fund from the province
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has launched a new $10 million fund to help tree fruit farmers facing proposed U.S. tariffs on the heels of years of devastatingly low crop yields. A statement from the Mi...
Feb 19, 2025
Sask. agriculture minister heading to India, UAE on trade mission
As Premier Scott Moe heads to Washington and Mexico in an effort to counter tariffs threatened by United States President Donald Trump, Saskatchewan's agriculture minister is off to India and the Unit...
Feb 11, 2025
No days off: Sask. farmers brace for week of freezing weather
A forecast predicting a week of frigid temperatures leaves Saskatchewan farmer Josef Buttigieg with a sinking feeling. "I'm really hoping that this is the last of the cold of this winter, and it has b...
Feb 11, 2025 Cows and sheep at Josef Buttigieg's farm chow down on feed during the fall of 2023. (Gillian Massie/ 980 CJME)
Amid U.S. tariff threats, a fight may be brewing over Canadian supply management
MONTREAL - The federal government and the Canadian dairy industry are vowing to protect the country's supply management system in the face of threats from the United States. But some observers, and ev...
Feb 05, 2025
Canada presses on with trade diversification strategy in face of Trump's threats
OTTAWA - As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to hold out the threat of steep tariffs on Canadian imports, the federal trade minister is citing new trade deals with Ecuador and other nations as pr...
Feb 04, 2025
Sask. farmers, APAS still concerned after Trump pauses tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to "pause" his proposed tariffs on Canada is good news for farmers in Saskatchewan, but a lot of uncertainty remains. Late on Monday afternoon, Trump said he'd p...
Feb 04, 2025
Which industries will feel the pinch of Trump's tariffs the hardest?
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order Saturday to impose tariffs of 10 per cent on Canadian energy and 25 per cent on everything else beginning on Feb. 4. Statistics Canada says the val...
Feb 01, 2025
A look at Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner
TORONTO - Mike Schreiner has led the Green Party of Ontario since 2009. Born: June 9, 1969. Early years: Schreiner was born in Kansas and raised on his family's grain and cattle farm. His father was a...
Jan 28, 2025
Trump's sweeping pardon of rioters highlights differences in U.S., Canadian systems
OTTAWA - In one of his first acts upon taking office Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned or moved to dismiss the cases of some 1,500 people charged in the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021. The s...
Jan 25, 2025 President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters as he signs an executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ben Curtis)
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