When Patti Mackenzie showed up at work last Friday morning, she found a big hole in her store’s front window and a Mountie standing inside, waiting for her. Mackenzie works at Pincher Office Products on Main Street in Pincher Creek. “When I came to work at 7 in the morning, …
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At long last, the Hogue inquiry lays the foundation for a real debate about foreign interference
The most grave allegation levelled during the foreign interference saga was that the Liberal government willfully turned a blind eye to Chinese state meddling. Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s initial report seems to at least cast significant doubt on that claim. ‘The evidence I have heard to date does not demonstrate bad …
Read More »Canadian police make 3 arrests in Sikh separatist’s slaying that sparked a spat with India
Photo Credit: NBC News VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian police said they arrested three suspects Friday in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that become the center of a diplomatic spat with India, and are investigating possible ties between the detainees and the Indian government. Three …
Read More »Ontario’s carbon emissions jump back to pre-pandemic levels
New figures show Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions jumped for a second straight year, following a pandemic-induced plunge, and have risen back to the level they were before Premier Doug Ford’s government came to power. New data show province’s greenhouse gas output in 2022 was on par with 2017. New figures …
Read More »The year is 1966 — and there’s a protest over Loblaws prices
Long before this month’s Reddit-powered Loblaws boycott, an earlier generation of fed-up shoppers had their own beef with the grocery giant’s prices. Shoppers converged on downtown Toronto location, angered by high prices. A 1966 protest aimed at Loblaws grocery prices On Oct. 21, 1966, a grocery prices-related protest at a …
Read More »TransAlta scraps wind farm project as energy market changes loom for Alberta
TransAlta, one of Alberta’s largest power generators, has cancelled a proposed wind farm development and is putting a hold on three other power projects, citing provincial rule changes and a lack of certainty in the market. In February, Alberta’s government announced new rules on the development of renewable power in …
Read More »Canada’s shopping for a foreign grocer. Can an international retailer succeed here?
With some Canadian consumers struggling to afford groceries, and as frustrations with corporate profits boil over, the federal government says it’s trying to coax international grocers to set up shop in Canada. An international supermarket could spur competition, analysts say, if one is willing to come here at all. With …
Read More »‘I love this guy’: Is there a budding bromance between Ford and Sutcliffe?
Over three meetings this spring, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has presented Doug Ford with a sports jersey, a dozen doughnuts and a welcome mat — all to the premier’s apparent delight. Ford called the doughnuts “beautiful” and the mat “fantastic.” His gifts, meanwhile, were more substantive: a $543-million “new deal” for …
Read More »Top soldier says military looking for ‘clarity’ on Ottawa’s budget plans
Just over a month into the new fiscal year and two weeks after the federal budget, the Department of National Defence is struggling to reconcile the Liberal government’s approach to military funding — giving with one hand while taking with the other. Between cuts and new spending, military is being …
Read More »Brutal details of Tiki Laverdiere’s murder now public after last of 10 accused sentenced
Ten people were involved in confining, torturing and murdering Tiki Laverdiere in the spring of 2019 in a violent bid to get information on the killing of an Edmonton man, according to court documents. 25-year-old Edmonton woman tortured, killed in North Battleford. WARNING: this story contains distressing details. Ten people …
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