The Canadian PressDean Bennett EDMONTON–Premier Rachel Notley is ordering a mandatory cut to oil production to deal with a price crisis she says threatens to gut Alberta’s bedrock industry. Notley announced the province will impose across-the-board cuts amounting to 8.7 percent of output to reduce a growing glut of oil […]
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The Canadian PressMichelle McQuigge TORONTO–The Ontario government is about to start facing co-ordinated opposition from two of the country’s largest unions bent on stopping what they describe as Premier Doug Ford’s “destructive agenda.” The heads of both Unifor and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union announced their alliance in the […]
The Canadian PressSidhartha Banerjee LONGUEUIL, Que.–Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques blasted through the skies over Kazakhstan early today in what appeared to be a seamless launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station. The 48-year-old doctor and astronaut lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Anne McClain […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Canada Post employees have been legislated back to work after more than five weeks of rotating strikes but that isn’t stopping their brethren from picking up picket signs to support them–and once again slowing the mail in the process. Just after the federal government passed a law […]
The Canadian Press WHITEHORSE–Tests will be performed on the body of a grizzly bear to try to find out why it killed a woman and her 10-month-old daughter in Yukon earlier this week. Environment Yukon spokeswoman Roxanne Stasyszyn said it’s hoped the examination will offer some clues about what motivated […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Union leaders and politicians who talk about saving a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. are selling “false hope,” Doug Ford said yesterday, as the leader of the union representing the affected autoworkers accused the premier of undermining efforts to fight the job cuts. Ford held […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s provincial agencies, including the LCBO, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., and Ontario Power Generation, now will need the government’s direct approval for any wage settlements reached through collective bargaining. In a memo to cabinet sent this week, Treasury Board president Peter Bethlenfalvy said the agencies must […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA–The federal Liberals aren’t living up to a promise to legislate a right to housing, a group of housing and homelessness advocates say, and that’s threatening the objectives of their own $40-billion housing strategy. “The right to housing means that every Canadian should have access to […]
The Canadian Press A town of about 1,400 people in Northern Ontario is crediting an ambitious marketing campaign with drawing two dozen new families to the community. Last year, Smooth Rock Falls, Ont. offered to reimburse 90 percent of the cost of the land if people built on it within […]
The Associated Press DELTA, B.C.–Cst. Derek Gallamore was shocked when his department in Delta, B.C. busted a woman allegedly selling weed-laced brownies with 40 times the recommended single dose of THC. The sugary treat looked identical to a regular grocery store confection but packed a whopping 400 mg of THC, […]
The Canadian Press MONTREAL–Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is bracing for some tense moments during this Monday’s launch of the Soyuz rocket that will send him and two others to the International Space Station. On Oct. 11, a rocket failure forced a Soyuz capsule carrying two astronauts to abort and make […]
The Canadian PressKristy Kirkup BUENOS AIRES, Argentina–Canada says it is on track to sign a new North American free-trade agreement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina but Foreign Affairs minister Chrystia Freeland would not provide a firm confirmation today. Freeland, speaking on a sunny patio at a […]
