Tag Archives: business

VANCOUVER - Seventy-one-year-old Roger Oake sat on a bench outside the Union Gospel Mission shelter in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after breakfast. He had been sleeping at the shelter for about a mo...

TORONTO - Hla Wynn was looking forward to his annual trip to New York this summer, eager to spend time with family and help his brother recover from surgery. But the retired college professor said his...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned incoming foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard University. Th...

The British Columbia government says a decade-old environmental assessment certificate remains valid for the construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C., in a decision opposed by the provi...

OTTAWA - After U.S. President Donald Trump boosted steel and aluminum tariffs to 50 per cent, some industry groups and the Official Opposition have called on the federal government to retaliate in kin...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump and Elon Musk's alliance took off like one of SpaceX's rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. The spectacular flameout Thursday hit a crescen...

TORONTO - Ontario intends to designate the mineral-rich Ring of Fire as a so-called special economic zone "as quickly as possible," Premier Doug Ford said Thursday. Ford said he and several ministers ...

HALIFAX - In response to Prime Minister Mark Carney's bid to make Canada an "energy superpower," Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is floating the idea of dramatically ramping up the province's nascent ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government has ditched a new fee schedule for breweries that would have seen the province's oldest beer maker pay significantly more in taxes. The schedule, introduced in February...

OTTAWA - Trade-sensitive businesses are telling the Bank of Canada that they're broadly less worried about their "worst-case tariff scenarios" coming true compared to earlier in the year, a senior cen...