2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (915+ words) VICTORIA — Building ferries in British Columbia would help the province weather the harsh economic winds coming from the United States, said a labour economist and co-author of a new report that calls for a reboot of domestic shipbuilding. “We need…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (978+ words) OTTAWA — Canadian politicians are pushing back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders limiting Canadian businesses’ access to procurement contracts and deploying a new set of tariffs. The five new orders, which will take effect Sept. 29, will completely bar imports…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (351+ words) Distilleries and spirit makers are likely to be the hardest hit among Canadian alcohol producers as the United States proposes a broad ban on Canadian booze starting later this month. Craig Johnston, chief economist at Farm Credit Canada, says distilleries…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (715+ words) McKee’s defeat ends his bid for a second full term and marks the first time in more than 30 years that a sitting Rhode Island governor has been beaten in a primary. Foulkes, a former senior executive at CVS and the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (658+ words) The two sons of Chang Yong Cho, who was killed in his Burnaby, B.C., home by a stray bullet, say they are “shattered” by the death of the 85-year-old. Justin and David Cho said in a statement on Wednesday that they…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (702+ words) For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast as they approached for landing and after touchdown,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (129+ words) OTTAWA — The federal government is abandoning plans to exempt certain projects from laws designed to protect species at risk. But environmental groups say Ottawa can still bypass the Species At Risk Act through other means. Ottawa is planning to introduce…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (665+ words) His office said in a statement that Tung passed away peacefully in the presence of his family members on Tuesday. Tung, a shipping tycoon, had little political experience before a panel of pro-Beijing elites picked him in 1997 to be the…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (373+ words) The strike on the Central Corrective Facility in the strategic city of Hazm in Jawf province also wounded at least seven people, including a woman, said Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry. The prison’s warden told the…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (423+ words) The strikes — a day after President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small potatoes” — keep up a new tilt back toward fighting after six months of on-again, off-again war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on…...