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Canadian pharmaceutical industry alarmed after Trump floats 200 per cent tariff
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
WASHINGTON — An pharmaceutical industry representative says Canada likely isn’t the main target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceutical imports — but his plan could still put parts of the Canadian sector in peril. Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association president Jim Keon says there’s a risk that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada continues to fall behind on building up EV charging network: experts
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada continues to fall behind on efforts to build up a network of electric vehicle charging stations, even as the rising number of chargers along key corridors makes it easier for Canadians to take their EVs on longer trips, researchers say. There are a little more than 35,000 charging stations across the country ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Report says all B.C. events should get risk review, in wake of festival tragedy
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A report on safety of festivals and other celebrations in British Columbia says all public events, regardless of size, should be supported by a risk assessment. It’s among several recommendations made by a former B.C. Supreme Court chief justice appointed after a vehicle raced down a Vancouver street during the Lapu Lapu Day ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. man charged with murdering Bailey Plover was convicted of assault hours earlier
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
The man accused of murdering his estranged wife, Bailey Plover, in a Kelowna, B.C., parking lot last week had been convicted of choking someone and uttering threats just hours before Friday’s attack that also left a second woman seriously hurt. The BC Prosecution Service says James Plover was originally charged in June 2024 in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada continuing to lag in the number of EV charging stations needed to meet goals
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada still doesn’t have the network of public charging stations it needs to meet its electric vehicle goals, researchers say. With a little more than 35,000 charging stations in service across the country, Canada is falling well short of the 100,000-plus stations it needed by this year, according to experts with the Dunsky ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec won’t accept some applications for sponsorship of immigrants until 2026
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
MONTREAL — The Quebec government says it won’t accept new applications from residents who want to sponsor their spouses, common-law partners or adult children for immigration until next year. The Immigration department says in a news release that it has reached its cap for sponsorship in those categories. As a result, the families of those ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec government reassigns head of auto insurance board amid scandal
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
QUÉBEC — The Quebec government has reassigned the president and CEO of the province’s auto insurance board. Éric Ducharme’s dismissal from the top job was confirmed by a government source who was not authorized to speak publicly. Ducharme was appointed to the position in April 2023 to restore order at the auto board, which has ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Defence expected to find operational savings even as its budget balloons
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence will not be spared from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cost-cutting drive — even though overall defence spending is set to balloon in the coming years. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to cabinet ministers Monday asking them to find savings of 7.5 per cent in their budgets starting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa’s national security review, shutdown order ‘procedurally unfair’: Hikvision
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
OTTAWA — A Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems says the national security review process that led the federal government to order it to shut down its Canadian operations was unfair. Hikvision makes the arguments in a court filing challenging a June 27 directive from the federal government to close down its business in Canada. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Texas flood to create safety planning ‘ripple effect’ at Canadian camps: organizers
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
EDMONTON — Canadian summer camp organizers say they expect a ripple effect of bolstered emergency plans and preparations this summer after more than two dozen campers and camp counsellors were killed by severe flash floods in Texas on Friday. “I would be shocked if there aren’t a lot of people that are looking at this ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wisconsin and Minnesota Republicans call on Canada to curb wildfire smoke
By Canadian Press on July 9th, 2025
WASHINGTON — Six Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to Canada’s ambassador calling for action on wildfires they say have sent smoke billowing across the international border into their states. In a Tuesday letter to Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, Reps. Tom Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach, Glenn Grothman and Pete Stauber ... Read More »
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