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Carney expected to announce new supports for steel industry hammered by U.S. tariffs
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government plans to limit foreign steel imports and cut interprovincial rail freight rates in a bid to support Canada’s steel industry threatened by damaging U.S. tariffs. A government official not authorized to speak about details ahead of the public announcement told The Canadian Press that Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search goes on for bear that attacked B.C. pupils, two other grizzlies to be freed
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says two grizzlies captured in Bella Coola will be fitted with tracking collars and relocated far from the community, while the search goes on for the bear that attacked and badly injured three schoolchildren and a teacher last week. The bears were captured as officers search for the mother bear ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trouble in ‘Team Canada’ as B.C.’s deputy premier raises spectre of pipeline lawsuit
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
VICTORIA — Rifts in “Team Canada” appear to be widening on the brink of a federal announcement on a potential pipeline from Alberta to the West coast, with B.C.’s deputy premier even raising the prospect of legal action against the project. Asked if she expects B.C. to file a court challenge against the pipeline that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lawsuit seeks damages against B.C., federal government over Cowichan title ruling
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
NEW WESTMINSTER — A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court says the provincial and federal governments had “long-standing” knowledge that unresolved Indigenous land claims threatened the security of property ownership in Canada. The lawsuit filed this week in New Westminster, B.C., alleges the recent decision by the court recognizing the Cowichan Tribes’ title ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Judge says Amazon needed 100 lawyers to assess 2.25M documents in competition probe
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired “at least 100 lawyers” to go through more than two million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation into potentially anticompetitive conduct. Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton ruled this month to grant some extensions for document production to Amazon, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Classes resume at B.C. school after grizzly attack, with safety measures in place
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
A school in Bella Coola, B.C., has reopened with safety measures, five days after a grizzly bear attack on a group of students and teachers. The search continued for the mother grizzly with two cubs thought to be involved in the attack, and the Acwsalcta School said in a statement on Monday that it was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Manitoba Premier Kinew asks PM Carney for sentencing, parole overhaul
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the recent release of a man who killed two women “disgusts” him, and he’s asking the federal government to change sentencing and parole board provisions. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Kinew says the recent release of Shawn Lamb seems to suggest that society is more ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney says B.C. ‘has to agree’ on pipeline plan from Alberta
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says British Columbia “has to agree” on a potential pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific coast. Carney is expected to unveil a memorandum of understanding on a new energy pact with Alberta in Calgary on Thursday that likely will include language about a new pipeline. In question period today, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Door-to-door pickups, students restricted to grounds amid search for bear in B.C.
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
BELLA COOLA — Students were allowed back to school today in Bella Coola, B.C., where a bear attacked a group of students and teachers last week, but the kids couldn’t leave the grounds and the bus was doing door-to-door service. The search continues for a mother grizzly bear with two cubs thought to be involved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fact File: X’s AI chatbot claims Carney isn’t PM, Russian video set in Toronto
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok made several errors over the past few weeks when asked to verify information on the X platform. In one instance, it miscaptioned video of a 2021 altercation involving hospital workers in Russia as taking place in Toronto a year earlier. In the other, it claimed multiple times Mark Carney “has ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court dismisses lawsuit accusing Manitoba Métis leader of wrongdoing
By Canadian Press on November 25th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Manitoba Métis Federation is celebrating an Ontario Superior Court decision that found its president did not breach his fiduciary duties while serving as finance minister for the Métis National Council. In a decision on the lawsuit released Tuesday, Justice Loretta P. Merritt wrote that a series of transactions made under the leadership ... Read More »
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