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Ejected MLA says Opposition Leader Rustad selling B.C. to ‘elite racial minority’
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
VICTORIA — The B.C. Conservatives’ former attorney general critic has lashed out at leader John Rustad, suggesting he and Premier David Eby are beholden to “an elite racial minority” after she was ejected from the Opposition caucus in a row over residential schools. Dallas Brodie was dumped by Rustad on Friday, the day after a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hudson’s Bay seeks creditor protection, plans to restructure business
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
TORONTO — Canada’s oldest retailer, Hudson’s Bay, has filed for creditor protection and intends to restructure the business. The department store company that dates back to 1670 says it has been facing significant pressures including subdued consumer spending, trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada and post-pandemic declines in downtown store traffic. The company’s hulking ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eby says electricity export tariffs similar to Ontario’s are not ‘priority’ for B.C.
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says the province has no plan to follow Ontario and levy a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to the United States. Eby says imposing such a fee “is not currently a priority,” with efforts focused on new legislation in coming days that would give the province ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Press NewsAlert: Hudson’s Bay seeks creditor protection, plans restructuring
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay, Canada’s oldest company that dates back to 1670, has filed for creditor protection and intends to restructure the business. The department store company says it has been facing significant pressures, including subdued consumer spending, trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada and post-pandemic drops in downtown store traffic. More coming. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds refuse protection order for southern resident orcas, rejecting ministers’ advice
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from “imminent threats” to their survival. Instead, the Fisheries Department says “incremental measures will be pursued” to protect the salmon-eating whales that live in British Columbia waters. Thursday’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Federal, Quebec prisons to launch pilot project on jamming cellphone, drone signals
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa has approved a pilot project to block cellphone and drone signals in federal and Quebec provincial prisons. Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says in a media statement the unauthorized use of drones and cell phones in prisons is a serious threat to the safety and security of Canadians. Champagne says he has approved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Senate seats now filled after prime minister announces five more appointments
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — With just days to go until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves federal politics, his office says five new appointments have now filled all the vacancies in the 105-seat Senate. The Prime Minister’s Office says in a news release that the Governor General has appointed former Moncton mayor Dawn Arnold for New Brunswick and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa announces $6.5-billion business aid package as Trump targets dairy, lumber
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government has put together a $6.5-billion aid package and is making temporary changes to the employment insurance program to support Canadian businesses and workers through the trade war with the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he may hit Canadian lumber and dairy with “reciprocal” tariffs, which he said ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘It’s nice’: Meet the Canadians tasked with changing country’s famous clocks
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
For at least a couple of hours on Sunday morning, Halifax residents who get the time from the city’s Old Town Clock may be thrown off. Craig Potter, an employee with Parks Canada, will be making the slow climb to change the clock, as he has done twice a year for the past four years. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Second Malik hit man gets life sentence as family asks who hired him
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The two hit men who killed Ripudaman Singh Malik in Surrey, B.C., almost three years ago, have both now been sentenced to life in prison, but Malik’s son says the family’s journey will only end once those who hired the killers are also brought to justice. Standing outside British Columbia Supreme ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad ejects Dallas Brodie over residential school mockery
By Canadian Press on March 7th, 2025
VICTORIA — A rift between British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad and his attorney general critic over her views on residential schools has culminated in her ejection from the Opposition caucus. Rustad described a showdown in the Conservative caucus room on Thursday in which he said Dallas Brodie challenged her colleagues to fire her and ... Read More »
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