A day before Alberta voters go to the polls, United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and the NDP’s Rachel Notley traded attacks over the pipeline issue that has come to define the campaign.
Former Volkswagen CEO charged with fraud in Germany over emissions scandal
German prosecutors charged former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and four others with fraud in the emissions cheating scandal that has helped turn many Europeans against diesel engines and accelerated the push toward electric cars.
Metro grocery stores in Quebec will allow customers to shop with reusable containers
Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University, says Metro is the first major grocery store chain in Canada to allow reusable containers.
Average house price has fallen by almost 2% to just over $480,000 in past year, CREA says
The average price of a Canadian home sold last month was $481,745, a figure that has fallen by 1.8 per cent in the past 12 months, the Canadian Real Estate Association says.
CIBC shuffles CEO’s brother into new role as head of CIBC Wood Gundy
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is shuffling its leadership deck in a series of moves effective today that includes appointing Ed Dodig, CEO Victor Dodig’s brother, to head retail investment firm CIBC Wood Gundy.
Workers begin removing nuclear fuel at Fukushima’s melted reactor
The operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant began removing fuel Monday from a cooling pool at one of three reactors that melted down in the 2011 disaster, a milestone in what will be a decades-long process to decommission the facility.
Anger mounts as Kashechewan First Nation declares state of emergency due to flooding
Frustration with the federal government is mounting as Kashechewan First Nation, a northern Ontario community that routinely floods every year, declares a state of emergency and prepares to evacuate.
What federal parties are watching for in the Alberta election
The 2019 federal election campaign is already underway. The CBC News Canada Votes newsletter is your weekly tip-sheet as we count down to Oct. 21.
As a government crackdown in Nicaragua got bloodier, Ottawa quietly cut off aid
Even as it waged a campaign against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Canada’s government was engaged in a much less visible effort to pressure another Latin government that has long been a darling of the left: the ruling Sandinistas of Nicaragua.
On the road in Canada’s conservative heartland
Alberta’s election is just days away, and if the polls are to be believed the United Conservative Party is set to sweep into power. It signals a trend of sorts, as conservative parties have recently won in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick too, possible signs of a conservative resurgence in Canada.