Tag Archives: business

SURREY - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a year-long investigation has led to one of the largest drug seizures in the detachment's history and will "disrupt" the drug trade in the city. RCMP say they la...

Just days after being appointed to their new jobs, three members of the British Columbia government are off to California to promote the province as a hot spot for film production. Spencer Chandra Her...

MONTREAL - The City of Montreal is promising to speed up construction permits, raise taxes on owners of vacant lots and spend tens of millions more dollars to help develop affordable housing as part o...

OTTAWA - Randy Boissonnault is leaving his post as employment minister in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal cabinet after weeks of questions about the Edmonton MP's shifting claims of Indigenous...

TORONTO - All 13 provincial and territorial premiers are aligned on a push for the federal government to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with the United States, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesd...

EDMONTON - Former prime minister Stephen Harper is the new chairman of the Alberta Investment Management Corp., which oversees more than $160 billion in funds, including pension funds and the Heritage...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canada's new lunar rover will head to the moon when it's built, but first it needs a name. The Canadian Space Agency has begun polling the public on four possible choices: Athabasca,...

HALIFAX - Previous Liberal and NDP governments are to blame for Nova Scotia's housing crisis, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston said Wednesday on the campaign trail, boasting that his party'...

VANCOUVER - Geoff Johnson and fellow storm watchers in Ucluelet, B.C., were concerned on Tuesday about the so-called "bomb cyclone" taking shape off Vancouver Island - not for safety reasons, but beca...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia NDP Leader Claudia Chender doesn't make a habit of getting kicked out of the legislature - it's happened once in her seven-year political career. But last fall, when a Progressiv...