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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Booze-free 'liquor' stores offer options, as some B.C. craft brewers decline and fall
VANCOUVER - Whatever your tipple, Angela Hansen's liquor store on Vancouver's Commercial Drive has stock to satisfy, from Prosecco to tequila - so long as you don't want any actual liquor. Hansen's "a...
Jan 09, 2025
B.C. court approves class-action lawsuit about privacy over Home Depot receipts
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can go ahead alleging Home Depot violated its customers' privacy when collecting and sharing their information after emai...
Jan 08, 2025
Sask. town sees flurry of construction with $30K housing cheque program
MOOSOMIN, Sask. - An official with a town in southeastern Saskatchewan says its plan to offer $30,000 cheques to anyone building homes in the community is paying off. Moosomin, located about 230 kilom...
Jan 08, 2025 Moosomin, located about 230 kilometres east of Regina, announced the cash initiative in August to attract development to the community in desperate need of housing. (The Canadian Press)
Cabinet ministers say they must not overreact to Trump annexation threats
OTTAWA - Several federal cabinet ministers say Canada should not overreact to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's comments about annexing Canada but should still take them seriously. Trump has mused a...
Jan 08, 2025
Ford pitches Trump on grand energy plan in effort to avoid tariffs
BOWMANVILLE, Ont. - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is pitching U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on a vision to supply the two nations with energy, as he positions himself as the country's protector amid a...
Jan 08, 2025
Liberal MPs push Dominic LeBlanc to reconsider running for leadership
OTTAWA - Some Liberal MPs are pressing Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc to change his mind and run for the party leadership. LeBlanc bowed out of the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on W...
Jan 08, 2025
Is Donald Trump kidding? Americans in Canada react to tariff, annexation threats
Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has been courting controversy in Canada since his election victory, with threats to impose whopping tariffs on Canadian goods and musings about the country becomin...
Jan 08, 2025
David Eby among premiers heading to Washington to tamp down Trump tariff threat
VANCOUVER - The "state of the federal government" following the announcement that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would resign means Canada's premiers are taking the lead in the fight against threatened...
Jan 07, 2025
Bank CEO worries shift to political uncertainty as mortgage risks ease
TORONTO - The heads of Canada's biggest banks are finally seeing risks around mortgage renewals easing, only for worries about tariffs and political uncertainty to take their place. "I think the tarif...
Jan 07, 2025
Donald Trump will go ahead with tariff threat against Canada, Mexico
WASHINGTON - United States president-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his plans to impose tariffs on Canada in his first news conference since the certification of his election win. Trump says h...
Jan 07, 2025 Donald Trump says he will be putting substantial tariffs against Canada and Mexico when he returns to the White House in less than two weeks.
The president-elect has previously said he’ll put 25 per cent duties on America’s closest neighbours unless they can stop the flow of illegal drugs across the border. (The Canadian Press)
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