Petitions push feds to ban glyphosate
The battle to ban glyphosate, Canada's most widely used pesticide, has made it to Parliament.
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Atlantic fishers decry Japan's Russian crab imports, but Tokyo says Canada exports negligible
Atlantic fishers are feeling the pinch as Japan brings in cheap Russian product rather than Canadian snow crabs, with federal ministers and provincial premiers saying they are raising the issue with Japanese officials.
Canada moves Sudan evacuation operations to port city as conflict rages
Canada is relocating its efforts to get stranded Canadians out of Sudan from the capital to a distant port city as violence continues to escalate between the country's army and a powerful paramilitary group.
Canada's financial support for clean energy is similar to U.S: TD Bank
The financial support Canada is offering for the clean energy transition is competitive with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) south of the border, a new report from TD Economics says.
Canada is suspending Sudan consular services as diplomats evacuated
Canada suspended consular services in Sudan on Sunday, April 23, 2023, amid reports of allied countries evacuating Canadian diplomats and as armed conflict escalated in the East-African country.
The Aboriginal crown: A new path for North American monarchy
Electing a monarch with Aboriginal ancestry to establish a new Canadian dynasty is more in line with “right” than any claim put forth by the Windsors.
New Ontario Volkswagen EV battery factory to create 3,000 jobs
The small southwestern Ontario city that gained fame more than a century ago as Canada's railway capital is being remade as "the national anchor" of Canada's electric-vehicle supply chain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday at the official launch of a new Volkswagen battery plant.
Focus should be on mental health supports to save police lives
If the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police wants to better protect officers in the wake of a string of cop killings across the country, focusing on bail reform is probably not the answer, writes Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck.
We’re all to blame for Canada’s brutal housing market
The beating heart of any successful housing strategy in this country involves going after the biggest enemy in all this: our own behaviour, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Out of pocket, out of patience
Rampant retail theft is impacting the bottom line, staff morale and customers’ limited resources already strained by high inflation.
Yukon River’s salmon runs likely to stay small while Indigenous Peoples’ sacrifice grows
The collapse of wild salmon is causing a current of pain that spans the length of the Yukon River, from its mouth at Alaska’s Bering Sea to the headwater’s in Canada’s Yukon territory 3,000 kilometres away.
Few asylum seekers on Quebec's Roxham Road after U.S.-Canada deal
About 12 hours after the closure of a rural southern Quebec road used by thousands of asylum seekers to enter Canada from the United States, Evelyne Bouchard witnessed RCMP agents escort a family of four people off her property.
Canadian LNG should power low-carbon revolution: Chamber of Commerce
As the world struggles to find the right balance between a carbon-free future and a present that still runs on fossil fuels, Canada could be leveraging its natural-gas riches to help fuel both, a new report suggests.
West Coast MP wants Ottawa to ban plastic foam causing a wave of pollution
Polystyrene foam is a plastic blight for beaches and waterways and is harmful to birds, fish and other marine creatures, says B.C. MP Rachel Blaney, who has tabled a motion for the federal government to ban its use in floating structures, like docks and buoys.
Young people are about to get screwed by the budget — again
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver her budget today. Young people hoping for some goodies in it shouldn't hold their breath, writes columnist Max Fawcett.