TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart on Wednesday, giving back some of the previous day’s gains as domestic housing data showed signs of economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak. Canadian housing starts fell 7.3% in March from the previous month in a sign that the coronavirus outbreak began to [...]
OTTAWA _ Canada has ordered 30,000 new ventilators from domestic companies but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he is hoping we don't end up needing nearly that many. Federal officials also said more than 230 million surgical masks and 75 million N95 respirator masks have been ordered but cautioned the global supply chain [...]
France is facing its deepest recession since the end of World War II because of the widespread lockdown to stem the coronavirus crisis, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned today. "The worst growth figure in France since 1945 was -2.2% in 2009, after the financial crisis of 2008. We will probably be very far [...]
VICTORIA — B.C. dairy farmers have begun dumping out raw milk on their farms— despite rising demand and sales — because of problems getting the milk into the supply chain and to grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. The B.C. Dairy Association confirmed to Postmedia News on Monday that B.C. farmers have been disposing [...]
VANCOUVER — A group of British Columbia First Nations says it will appeal a decision on the the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Coldwater Band say they have fought and challenged the project through every federal court, and now want to take [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Canadian company said Monday that it’s started construction on the long-stalled Keystone XL oil sands pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, despite calls from tribal leaders and environmentalists to delay the $8 billion project amid the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesman for TC Energy said work began over the weekend at [...]
TORONTO — TekSavvy Solutions Inc. is appealing to Canadian consumers for support in a politically charged battle between Canada’s independent internet service providers and the big phone and cable companies. Bell, Rogers and Canada’s other major phone and cable companies asked the federal cabinet in November to overrule a 2019 regulatory decision that slashes [...]
ST-GEORGES, Que. — A group of Quebec investors has signed a deal to buy the Canadian operations of the Canam Group architectural steel company, as well as certain assets in the United States and overseas, from the American Industrial Partners equity firm. The transaction, which is expected to close in the coming weeks, will [...]
Alberta’s rural municipalities say the amount of unpaid property taxes they’re owed by oil and gas companies has more than doubled over the past year. The association says they are owed a total of $173 million — a 114 per cent increase over last spring. Years of low oil prices have left many small [...]
VANCOUVER — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei started in a Vancouver courtroom Monday, a case that has infuriated Beijing, caused a diplomatic uproar between China and Canada and complicated high-stakes trade talks between China and the United States. Canada’s arrest of chief financial [...]