Category Archives: Economy
The Latest: Bar owner arrested for fake vaccination cards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The owner of a Northern California bar was arrested on suspicion of selling made-to-order fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to several undercover state agents for $20 each in what officials said Friday is the first such foiled operat...
Economy lost 207,000 jobs in April, unemployment rate rises, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA — Canada's labour market lost 207,000 jobs last month as a spike in COVID-19 variant cases led to renewed public health restrictions and raised concerns about longer-term economic consequences from the pandemic. The unemployment rate rose to 8.1...
The Latest: Washington Gov criticized for reopening plan
TACOMA, Wash. - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is receiving criticism from lawmakers in his own party over his shifting economic reopening plan, with a group of Democrats from the state’s second most populous county threatening the possibility of a special...
Canada agrees to take part in WTO talks to waive patent protections on vaccines
WASHINGTON — Canada agreed Thursday to join World Trade Organization talks on waiving the rules that protect vaccine trade secrets — a measure drug companies and a number of world leaders say would only slow down production. International Trade Ministe...
NDP promises foreign buyers’ tax, half a million new homes to cool housing market
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is pledging a hefty foreign home buyers' tax and "massive" investment in housing to chill a boiling-hot real estate market. Unveiled today at a virtual news conference, Singh's election campaign-style promise would imp...
Ontario First Nations group backs Line 5 shutdown, slams Ottawa for fighting back
WASHINGTON — The federal Liberal government is putting Canada's oil and gas industry ahead of the Great Lakes by opposing Michigan's efforts to shut down the Line 5 pipeline, says a prominent group of Ontario First Nations. The Anishinabek Nation said
Microsoft pledges to let EU users keep data inside bloc
LONDON — Microsoft is pledging to let business and public sector customers in the European Union keep cloud computing data inside the 27-nation bloc to avert concerns about U.S. government access to sensitive information. Microsoft “will go beyond our ...
US proposes ending rule that weakened wild bird protections
BILLINGS, Mont. — Longstanding protections for wild birds would be restored under a proposal unveiled Thursday to bring back prosecutions of avian deaths by industry that were ended under former President Donald Trump. The Interior Department announcem...
N.L. in financial crisis of its own making, time to rein in public spending: report
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Poor management and a culture of indifference toward debt have brought Newfoundland and Labrador to a financial breaking point, according to a long-awaited economic report released Thursday.The report titled The Big Reset says the pr...
Plan to restart idled Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia to be redrafted: company
HALIFAX — The owners of an idled pulp mill in northern Nova Scotia say their plans for a new effluent treatment facility have been withdrawn from the province's environmental assessment process. Northern Pulp issued a statement Wednesday saying the com...
