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Manitoba ad campaign will promote buying local amid Trump tariff tiff

Manitoba ad campaign will promote buying local amid Trump tariff tiff

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government launched a website and advertising campaign Wednesday to convince people to buy local products and support businesses threatened by potential tariffs from the United States.
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Talk of changing Vancouver's supportive housing policy has organizations on edge

Talk of changing Vancouver's supportive housing policy has organizations on edge

VANCOUVER — A proposal by Vancouver's mayor to halt new supportive housing projects in the city has organizations with plans in various stages of completion worried about the projects they've spent years trying to get off the ground.
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Canada Nick Taylor has a cure for the mid-winter blues: winning

Canada Nick Taylor has a cure for the mid-winter blues: winning

The mid-winter blahs are something Nick Taylor has only heard about. Taylor has won four of his five career PGA Tour titles in the winter months, most recently winning the Sony Open in Hawaii on Jan. 12 in a playoff with Colombia's Nico Echavarría.
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CP NewsAlert: B.C. investigating 'significant' opioid diversion

CP NewsAlert: B.C. investigating 'significant' opioid diversion

VICTORIA — A recent B.C. Ministry of Health document says a "significant portion" of opioids prescribed by doctors and pharmacists are being diverted and that prescribed alternatives are being trafficked provincially, nationally and internationally.
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Great-West Lifeco earns $1.1 billion in fourth quarter, raises dividend

Great-West Lifeco earns $1.1 billion in fourth quarter, raises dividend

WINNIPEG — Great-West Lifeco Inc. says it earned $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, up from $740 million a year earlier. The Winnipeg, Man.-based insurer raised its dividend and said it intends to repurchase additional common shares in 2025.
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Canadian teenage surfer Erin Brooks moves on at Lexus Pipe Pro in Hawaii

Canadian teenage surfer Erin Brooks moves on at Lexus Pipe Pro in Hawaii

PUPUKEA — Canadian surfer Erin Brooks has moved into the round of 16 at the Lexus Pipe Pro, progressing by finishing second in her elimination-round heat Wednesday.
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Republican senator pleads with Trump to exempt potash from threatened tariffs

Republican senator pleads with Trump to exempt potash from threatened tariffs

WASHINGTON — A Republican senator from Iowa is pleading for an exemption for potash if U.S. President Donald Trump triggers a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on Canadian imports.
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Trudeau travelling to Paris, Brussels for AI summit, meetings with European allies

Trudeau travelling to Paris, Brussels for AI summit, meetings with European allies

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet European leaders and the head of NATO next week as Canada reaches out to allies reeling under the impact of the new Trump administration in the United States.
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Demolitions go ahead in Calgary neighbourhood for transit station that may never come

Demolitions go ahead in Calgary neighbourhood for transit station that may never come

CALGARY — Steel snapped and tumbled to the snow-covered concrete on Wednesday as bulldozers ripped away pieces of Calgary's Eau Claire Market, a plucky mall near the Bow River built in the early 1990s.
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Honolulu records 6th death from massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's

Honolulu records 6th death from massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's

HONOLULU (AP) — A sixth person died Wednesday from injuries sustained when crates of illegal fireworks ignited during a New Year’s Eve party in a Honolulu neighborhood, setting off a chain of explosions that left more than a dozen people with severe
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