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Producers of beer, wine and spirits will be able to start applying Tuesday to the province’s liquor corporation for authorizations to do direct-to-consumer sales, a process the premiers say will only take a matter of days.

Matthew Boswell , who served as commissioner of Canada’s Competition Bureau from May 2018 until late last year, has joined law firm Norton Rose Fulbright as a partner in its antitrust and competition practice in Ottawa. Boswell left his role as commissioner of competition on Dec. 17, after completing an initial five-year term, ending in 2023,…

While oil prices stay $10 US above expectations, Alberta government rakes in an extra $20 million — every day, says an economist.

Three deer stuck on a piece of ice were spotted floating down the Detroit River on Monday.

The body of Abel Mwansa Jr., one of the students killed in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting earlier this month, was buried Monday in his native Zambia. The 12-year-old’s funeral service was held Monday in Kitwe in Copperbelt province, a mining region in northern Zambia. His father, Abel Mwansa Sr., said the family is “eternally…

This will be the last year clocks spring forward after the B.C. government announced Monday it was making daylight time permanent. The change will take effect on Sunday, when clocks move ahead an hour. Permanent daylight time will mean that the typical falling back of clocks by an hour in November will not take place.…

The federal government’s Indigenous affairs office has signed an agreement with the Musqueam Indian Band in B.C., a deal that recognizes the community’s aboriginal rights within a wide swathe of land encompassing much of Vancouver. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC), the department in charge of negotiating title rights, first publicized the deal on…

LONDON — Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would allow other countries to have to access to a future Canadian national energy and critical mineral stockpile but only allies in times of “crisis and war” who have a free-trade agreement with Canada. Speaking at an event in London, U.K., organized by CANZUK, an advocacy group…

A Federal Court judge has refused to temporarily order Corrections Canada to move a transgender inmate with a history of sex offences from a men’s to a women’s prison, but has agreed the judicial review in her case should be heard more quickly.

Prince George RCMP officer Arthur Dalman was found guilty of obstruction of justice following the 2017 death of Dale Culver, an Indigenous man who died in police custody. Dalman was not involved in the altercation but was found to have ordered a bystander to delete video taken at the scene of the arrest.