Tag Archives: business

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says supervised consumption sites are just "drug dens" and that he will close them if his party forms the next government. Poilievre visited a park near s...

VANCOUVER - Federal Court in Vancouver is to hear a case today from the Saskatchewan government asking for an injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting millions in carbon levy money...

Three times a year, the 600-or-so employees of Friesens Corp. gather in front of the printing house to accept envelopes, each one holding a cheque for the workers' share of company profits. They all g...

TORONTO - Ontario infrastructure officials released more information Thursday about structural and mechanical issues facing the Ontario Science Centre, as well as a peer review of the original enginee...

WHITEHORSE, YUKON, CANADA - Yukon mines minister John Streicker says that the Eagle Gold mine disaster that involved a release of cyanide solution has the territory's residents "justly concerned" abou...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says it has completed the sale of its remaining 77 per cent interest in its steelmaking coal business to Glencore plc. The news comes as no surprise following the annou...

OTTAWA - The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement. The money is...

VICTORIA - B.C's Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry joked that "the earth shook" with Thursday's release of her report on the safer-supply drug program, referring to an earthquake lightly felt...

OTTAWA - Canada has signed a trilateral agreement with Finland and the U.S. to boost the production of icebreakers in an effort to safeguard the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The "ICE Pact," as it's b...

RICHMOND - It was not quite the 2006 film "Snakes on a Plane" at Vancouver International Airport, but there were real eels - dozens of them - writhing on the tarmac during a recent incident captured o...