A historic home popularly known as the Little Red House has been destroyed by fire after standing in the Township of Langley for almost 140 years. The township’s archives say the home properly known as Mclver House burned down early on Thursday. It says the home was built by Murdoch and Annie McIver between 1887 and 1890.
Chinese exports are pressuring African manufacturers as Washington competes with Beijing over minerals, infrastructure, and strategic access.
'There are several locations we want to discuss with the U.S. side where such a presence would be truly massive,' said one Polish official.
Reykjavík brought the referendum forward after Trump's Greenland push, but the campaign has turned on fish, the krona, and sovereignty.
Alphabet’s Google on Friday said it had changed its spam policy in Europe to address EU concerns that could have resulted in an antitrust fine. The U.S. tech giant found itself in EU regulators’ crosshairs after publishers complained about its site reputation abuse policy. It targets the practice of publishing third-party pages on a site [...]
Premier Ben Carroll moved to stop work on the controversial statue on Aug. 29, announcing the government would no longer automatically commission monuments.
At least 579 people have been killed, while almost 2,500 remain missing, including 41 Australians.
A group that refers to itself as a pro-“remigration” organization says it has found a new venue to hold its event in the Hamilton area after several venues cancelled its bookings and the Hamilton Police Service put out a press release against the event. Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath and the local police have advised venues […]
Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific articles in the search results for an individual’s name. The case, which [...]
The president called the agreement ‘the biggest oil deal in world history.’
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Commentary As Canada’s trade war with the United States continues, more voices within and outside Alberta are proposing using Western Canada’s resources as leverage in trade negotiations. The federal government can impose export tariffs or even curtail oil and gas exports to pressure the USA. But using Alberta’s oil as a bargaining chip in a [...]
Bruce Banman has announced his departure from the B.C. Conservative Party to serve as an Independent, citing concerns about the party’s leadership. He is the sixth MLA to leave the party in the past two weeks. “After numerous conversations with many of my constituents, it has become clear under the new leadership and direction of the Conservative Party of BC, an NDP win is becoming increasingly likely,” Banman said in an Aug. 28 statement posted on social media. The Abbotsford South MLA said the party needed to focus on affordability, housing, healthcare, and public safety. He encouraged other B.C. Conservative MLAs to also leave the party to sit as independents....
One of the men found guilty in the so-called “Surrey Six” killings in 2007 has lost his bid for a stay of proceedings, meaning his convictions for first-degree murder still stand. Cody Haevischer alleged he suffered an abuse of process, but B.C. Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin says the vast majority of his claims have [...]
Taxes, parental leave and the U.S. trade war are taking centre stage during the first full day of campaigning on the Quebec election trail. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is promising to reduce taxes for Quebec businesses by 20 percent in his first term as premier if his party wins the Oct. 5 election. […]
People from Ebola-affected countries will continue to be banned from entering Canada for an additional 30 days, extending the existing ban for a fourth consecutive month. The extension means that decisions concerning immigration and visa applications for residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan will be paused until Sept. 28, the [...]
Treasury says Kameng Trading helped an Iranian exchange house launder money, days after a broader U.S. action targeted other Hong Kong entities.
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has become the first non-NASA astronaut to receive the American Congressional Space Medal of Honor in a ceremony alongside his crewmates on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump awarded the four Artemis II astronauts—NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Hansen—the medal in a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) released its decision Aug. 26 on the 2018 incident.
Commentary Once again, dried out forests, brush, and timber are bursting into flames in regions across Canada, devastating areas including in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, and causing a distressing amount of harm to people, property, livelihoods, and cherished environments, both natural and man-made. Unfortunately, Canada is also enmeshed in another destructive cycle of policy argumentation [...]
