Cdn garbage coming home

Sixty-nine shipping containers of fetid Canadian trash are being loaded onto a container ship in the Philippine port of Subic today. Philippine Foreign Secretary Teddy Locsin posted video and photos to his Twitter account showing the containers being loaded onto MV Bavaria. The ship is expected to depart for Vancouver later today. Canada has previously […]

Life expectancy stalls

Statistics Canada has released data showing life expectancy stopped increasing for the first time in four decades as young men and women died at higher rates, mostly due to opioid-related overdoses in British Columbia, followed by Alberta. The agency says life expectancy did not go up from 2016 to 2017 for either men or women […]

Last Merritt mill cuts shifts

Merritt workers are the latest casualties of a slowdown in forest industry production, as Aspen Planers Ltd. announced Thursday its sawmill will reduce operations from two shifts per day to one. “Due to the ongoing lack of access to logs, increased log costs and weakening lumber markets, Aspen Planers will curtail production and reduce operations […]

Bank of Canada sees rising business investment, says economy solid

CALGARY, Alberta – The Bank of Canada said on Thursday that business investment should expand gradually overall but expressed concerns over increased trade frictions between the United States and the European Union. Carolyn Wilkins, the bank’s senior deputy governor, said the expanded investment should be led by firms outside the oil and gas sector, which […]

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