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HALIFAX - A new provincial program meant to deliver on a campaign promise and encourage residents to buy local that's been called "gimmicky" and "laughably stupid" by opposition leaders has left some ...

In March 2023, executives from Canada's three largest grocery companies paid a visit to Parliament Hill. Michael Medline, Galen Weston and Eric La Flche had been summoned before a House of Commons com...

Recent ads from Loblaw Co. urging shoppers to skip the line at their local farmers market and visit its budget subsidiary NoFrills instead are an attack on groups that already struggle to sell their p...

WINNIPEG - A steam locomotive made in 1882 and billed as Canada's oldest operating one is in need of some tender loving care, and the volunteers who have kept it running on a vintage railway north of ...

Bell Canada president Mirko Bibic says the company takes complaints from Yukon residents about poor cellphone service in the territory "extremely seriously." Bibic responded to a letter sent by Yukon ...

VANCOUVER - The BC Maritime Employers Association says it has been told by a lawyer for the foremen's union that an industry-wide strike vote will take place in coming weeks. The employers' group says...

WHITEHORSE, YUKON - The Yukon government says it is stepping in to build a safety berm at the site of the Eagle Gold mine disaster after the mine's owner failed to meet a deadline imposed by an inspec...

MONTREAL - Environmental activists have caused disruptions outside Montreal Trudeau International Airport for three consecutive days protesting Canadian fossil fuel policy. On Friday around 12:30 p.m....

WASHINGTON, D. C. - A group of experts is sounding the alarm that Ottawa needs to swiftly make more inroads with Americans, or Canada will be deeply disadvantaged in a looming review of a crucial trad...

HALIFAX - As the Nova Scotia government announced it ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of nearly $144 million, opposition parties called for changes to spending practices that allow the govern...