Tag Archives: business

WILLIAMS LAKE - A company operating a wood pellet plant in the British Columbia Interior says the facility will be shuttered by the end of the year due to a lack of available fibre. U.K.-based Drax, w...

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's steel industry association says there was one disappointment in Prime Minister Mark Carney's otherwise helpful package of measures to boost the domestic market in the fac...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says there's no scientific evidence to suggest Canada should ban imports of honey bees from outside North America. The CFIA says it's closely monitoring th...

TORONTO - Another northern Ontario First Nation has signed a partnership deal with the province to fast track construction on the road to the mineral-rich Ring of Fire, with its chief saying they hope...

OTTAWA - An agreement between Ottawa and Alberta that could clear the path for a new oil pipeline to the Pacific will also require a 75 per cent cut in methane emissions over the next decade, a source...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's energy minister says political talk of a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific isn't the way to do business and leaks through the media should not be considered the govern...

VANCOUVER - A co-founder of Vancouver's Drug User Liberation Front said he was surprised by Health Canada's lack of "urgency" about the deadly toxic drug crisis, and the absence of a pharmaceutical-gr...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney expects to speak with the U.S. president at a World Cup event in Washington next week, but he's cautioning Canadians not to read too much into the conversations bet...

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is urging Ottawa to terminate the West Coast oil tanker ban as the federal government prepares to unveil the details of a new energy pact it has been negotiatin...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers says it's disappointed and surprised that a farmers lobby group is calling for caps on the profits of major grocery chains. Gary Sands, senior ...