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Oct 21 2018 — CBC — After four days of lineups at pot shops across Alberta, some store owners say there’s not enough weed left to keep their doors open and they’re struggling to order more. In the meanwhile, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission has granted 14 more retail cannabis store licenses since Wednesday, bringing the total number to […]

Oct 21 2018 — CBC — NDP MLA Leonard Krog has been elected the mayor of Nanaimo, triggering a provincial byelection that could shift the balance of power in the legislature. Krog won nearly 73 per cent of the vote. He defeated Don Hubbard by more than 13,000 votes. “The numbers are living proof that [people] did want me to run,” […]

Oct 21 2018 — Eric Grenier — CBC — A lot can happen in a year. But all else being equal, a party would prefer to be ahead rather than behind in the run-up to a general election — even with a full year still to go. Which is where Justin Trudeau’s Liberals find themselves with 365 days left before the 2019 federal election. […]

Oct 20 2018 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — Members of the incoming Mexican government’s cabinet are heading to Ottawa early next week, as Canada tries to move the bilateral relationship “beyond the NAFTA talks,” says Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Ministers with the National Regeneration Movement, or Morena, will be visiting Ottawa on Monday. The party, led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will […]

Oct 20 2018 — Catharine Tunney — CBC — Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs Minister Minister Dominic LeBlanc is promising changes to the federal government’s northern food security subsidy program in the coming weeks, acknowledging that Nutrition North has “lost its way.” Nutrition North, launched in 2011, provides subsidies on shipping to retailers on a list of products the government deems to be nutritious or […]

Oct 20 2018 — David Common — CBC — American border agents are increasingly concerned about the northern boundary with Canada, saying the number of people entering the U.S. through back roads, forests and even across rivers is surging. “We’ve seen an increase coming into the United States from Canada,” U.S. Border Patrol Houlton Division chief Dennis Harmon says. He is responsible for the […]

Oct 20 2018 — Elise von Scheel — CBC — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says that anyone who thinks the new trilateral North American trade agreement limits Canada’s trade sovereignty is misguided. Freeland told Chris Hall, host of CBC Radio’s The House, that the section of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that lays out the rules for making pacts with “non-market” countries won’t limit Canada’s […]

Oct 20 2018 — Janyce McGregor — CBC — Canada’s embrace of American-style protectionist measures to prop up domestic steelmakers is set to increase costs for consumers and secondary manufacturers — assuming they can even find steel to buy amid current shortages. It’s also offending key trading partners. As of next Thursday, a 25 per cent surtax will be applied to all foreign imports […]

Oct 19 2018 — CBC — The United Conservative Party continues to win Alberta’s political fundraising sweepstakes, outperforming the governing NDP by about $500,000 in the last reporting period. Figures from Elections Alberta show the UCP raised $1,175,812 in the third quarter of 2018 — the period from July 1 to Sept. 30. The party’s year-to-date fundraising total sits at $2.7 […]

Oct 19 2018 — CBC — A group of companies led by multinational defence giant Lockheed Martin has been selected as the preferred designer for Canada’s next generation of warships, the Liberal government said Friday. The announcement represents a significant step forward for the long-anticipated $60 billion program to replace the navy’s aging fleet of frigates. “The Canadian Surface Combatant project […]

Oct 19 2018 — Michael Coren — CBC — Pope Francis has the most extraordinary ability to say the wrong things, often at the most sensitive times. Last Friday, he accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl — a controversial figure accused of doing too little to prevent, and perhaps even deliberately covering, up hideous sexual abuse cases. Beyond simply […]

Oct 19 2018 — Chris Hall — CBC — Wayne Easter answered the phone in the middle of a quick lunch. The chair of the Commons finance committee was in Winnipeg yesterday with other committee members, listening to submissions on what should be in the next federal budget. Wherever they stop, Easter said, the message heard by committee members is pretty much the same: […]

Oct 19 2018 — Katie Simpson — CBC — A prominent Canadian steel executive told MPs this week that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland​’s “ego” is getting in the way of ending American tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. Barry Zekelman, the chairman and CEO of Zekelman Industries, delivered a scathing assessment Thursday of how the Liberal government is handling the tariff fight with […]

Oct 18 2018 — John Paul Tasker — CBC — The push is on for Parliament to quickly ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement so that Canada can reap the benefits that come from being an early adopter of the deal — and there’s a race on now to beat other countries to the punch. The agreement comes into force 60 […]

Oct 18 2018 — CBC — P.E.I.’s newest senator Brian Francis says he sought and obtained clearance from the federal ethics commissioner to apply for a position with the senate. That’s because a little more than two years before he became a senator, the former chief of the Abegweit First Nation was appointed for a one-year term to the body that […]