Economy, Law & Politics

OTTAWA — It was supposed to do the heavy lifting for Canada's greenhouse gas emissions targets.

VICTORIA — The caucus chair for British Columbia's official opposition has defected to the BC Conservatives, adding to BC United's woes ahead of the provincial election next fall.

Plan for Blueberry River First Nation territory protects 68 per cent of the plan area from new disturbances

OTTAWA — The Canadian government remained quiet Friday after a New York court convicted Donald Trump as a felon, despite the Liberals repeatedly trying to draw equivalencies between the former U.S. president and the Canadian Conservative leader.

North Vancouver and West Van taxpayers will see sewage costs go up by $590 a year after directors the regional board reject a call for help from North Shore board members

OTTAWA — Months before British Columbia sought to scale back its drug decriminalization pilot project, the federal government's own polling suggested to officials that a majority of Canadians believed the policy would lead to an increase in overdoses

OTTAWA — The federal government ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with a deficit of $50.9 billion. The result for the April-to-March period compared with a deficit of $41.3 billion reported for the same stretch of its 2022-23 fiscal year.

OTTAWA — Canadian economic growth came in slower than expected for the first quarter, strengthening the case for a possible interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada next week. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.

Unifor has filed an unfair labour practice complaint against Amazon amid a vote by workers at a Delta, B.C., warehouse over whether they want to join the union.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's government is tripling a program that offers free air conditioners to people with low incomes as forecasters say the province should prepare for hotter-than-normal temperatures in June.