Unpublished Newswire
OTTAWA – Quebec is joining the Canadian internal trade party. One of the most regulated provinces in the country has introduced “the most ambitious bill in Canada” aimed at removing its trade barriers.
“We are sending a signal that Quebec is open to interprovincial trade,” said Christopher Skeete, Quebec’s minister delegate for the economy. “We must accept to open our market.”
Quebec is yet another Canadian province to remove such barriers, along with Nova Scotia, Ontario and New Brunswick. Nova Scotia was the first province to pass a new law encouraging reciprocity between provinces...
May 30, 2025 - 16:32 | Antoine Trépanier | National Post
This week’s Speech from the Throne was a brilliant bit of theatre. Former prime ministers and governors-general mingled. King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in a horse-drawn carriage. Inviting the King himself to open Parliament sent an unmistakable message: This is not the 51st state and never will be. We have our own practices and traditions, founded on centuries of history. Anyone who thinks that all that separates us is a line on the map has another think coming.
May 30, 2025 - 16:25 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
In the largest mass-mortality event ever recorded, the Black Death swept through Europe in the 14th century, killing between 30 to 50 per cent of the human population. After the initial wave, the plague persisted for more than 500 years in a series of smaller epidemics. History suggests that the bacterium that causes the plague changed as it ran its course, becoming less deadly and potentially allowing the disease to infect more hosts.
May 30, 2025 - 16:10 | Scott Van Haren | The Globe and Mail
Residents and cottagers are returning to an unrecognizable landscape in Lac du Bonnet, after a devastating wildfire tore through.
May 30, 2025 - 16:06 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
Three years ago, Eric Anoee's Jr., along with his family, made the difficult decision to move his brother Bernard from Arviat to Embassy West, seniors' living facility in Ottawa.
May 30, 2025 - 16:04 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Canadians who bought packaged bread in the past two decades may be eligible for a cash payout from a $500-million
bread-fixing class action settlement
.
Earlier this month, the Ontario Superior Court approved the national
settlement
of
a lawsuit that accused Loblaw Cos. Ltd. and its parent company, George Weston Ltd., of...
May 30, 2025 - 16:01 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
