Sarah Mills: The magic of the May Long Weekend
Sarah Mills is looking forward to the May Long Weekend, and says the holiday holds the promise of the summer ahead, even...
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Gas firm says a contractor is dead in a gas plant fire near Fort St. John, B.C.
FORT ST. JOHN - A contractor has been killed and another person hurt in a fire in a gas plant north of Fort St. John, B.C. Alberta-based Tourmaline Oil, which runs the Gundy oil and gas extraction fac...
Apr 15, 2025
Party leaders make promises on job training, seniors scam protection, capital gains tax
OTTAWA - The main federal parties campaigned in the Montreal area Tuesday, with the Liberals pitching a new training benefit for mid-career workers and the Conservatives promising to protect seniors f...
Apr 15, 2025 This composite image made from five file photos shows, from left: Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and co-leader of the Green party Jonathan Pedneault. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot, Chris Young, Sean Kilpatrick, Spencer Colby, Mathieu Catafard)
California governor urges Canadians to ignore Trump, come back for sand, sun and wine
Canadians' boycott of travel to the U.S. is hitting hard on California's sandy shores, prompting the state's governor to make a social media pitch-plea to come back. Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a video this...
Apr 15, 2025
First Nation launches challenge of B.C.'s approval to raise Mount Polley mine dam
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave wa...
Apr 15, 2025
Nova Scotia auditor general credits government on progress fulfilling recommendations
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia auditor general Kim Adair said Tuesday the provincial government has made substantial progress toward acting on recommendations she made from 2020 to 2022. In the first followup ...
Apr 15, 2025
Manitoba premier touts increased trade with Europe, possible second Hudson Bay port
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew expressed an openness Tuesday to a potential second port on Hudson Bay as a tool to help ramp up trade with Europe amid trade disputes with the United States. It ...
Apr 15, 2025
Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States
HALIFAX - The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities is warning its members against non-essential travel to the United States. The Canadian Association of University Teach...
Apr 15, 2025
Ottawa says automakers that keep building in Canada will get a tariff exemption
WASHINGTON - Automobile companies that continue to manufacture vehicles in Canada will get an exemption from Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to upend the North Ame...
Apr 15, 2025
Tariff uncertainty foils 'slam dunk rebound year' for national home sales: CREA
The Canadian Real Estate Association downgraded its forecast for home sales this year, while it also reported Tuesday the number of homes that changed hands across the country in March fell 9.3 per ce...
Apr 15, 2025
Inflation cooled to 2.3% in March as gas prices fell, StatCan says
OTTAWA - Canadians got a break on inflation in March as gas prices fell and a slowdown in travel to the United States helped cool airfare costs, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The annual rate of infl...
Apr 15, 2025
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