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To qualify for higher income assistance in Nova Scotia, a home now needs running water and a sewer connection. The province filed the legislative amendment on Aug. 25 and it took effect the same day. It rewrites the provision the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal interpreted on Aug. 7, when it ruled that Bradley Lowe’s…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rejected the idea of using the province’s oil exports as leverage in the U.S. trade war, saying that such a move would “devastate the Canadian economy” and inflate energy prices for consumers across Canada. The premier was responding to growing calls — including from Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi and former…

With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a…

While provincial and federal ministers this week revived pleas for the nation’s citizens to “buy Canadian” in the fallout of torpedoed Canada-U.S. trade talks, the country’s largest airline is offering business class passengers American bourbon. As reported by Global News , a subsequently removed social media post Monday claimed Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey was being…

OTTAWA – Canada’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul doesn’t expect formal negotiations on the review of the Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement (CUSMA) between Canada and the U.S. to happen anytime soon, following the collapse of trade talks between the two countries last week. “I think that the discussions between Canada and the U.S. on the CUSMA…

OTTAWA — A nicotine users’ rights group is calling on Ottawa to loosen restrictions on nicotine pouches, after uncovering a booming illicit market in a cross-country road trip. Members of Rights 4 Vapers purchased 148 illegal nicotine products from 42 retailers during a nine-day summer tour of five provinces, starting in Montreal and ending in…

On the last Friday in July, the new Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) in Dallas completed its rollout. It now carries every exchange-listed security in the United States, with the NYSE and Nasdaq squarely in its sights. A big and bold bet, in true Texas fashion . But the exchange is not the biggest thing that…

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. will reintroduce the country-of-origin labelling in its fresh produce aisles, just weeks after dropping them from displays, as consumers increasingly look to “buy Canadian” amid a trade war with the United States. The grocery retailer said the move is to make it easier for customers who want to support Canadian farmers, producers…

Australia is the country most often named as best able to ride out a global catastrophe. Canada is on the other side of the ledger. Florian Ulrich Jehn is the lead author of the first review to map which places on Earth would hold up best in a global catastrophe, published Aug. 23 in the…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has thrown his support behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., as tensions between Canada and the Trump administration continue to escalate. Speaking at a media conference in Vaughan, Ont., on Wednesday, Ford said Carney had done the “right thing” by walking away from a deal with the…