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Online platform helps keep Quebec's sugar shack tradition alive during pandemic
MONTREAL - Stephanie Laurin slept next to a colossal, simmering pot every night over the last week, supervising the production cycle of pea soup at Chalet des Erables sugar shack, north of Montreal. L...
Apr 07, 2021
Health Canada seizes infertility, breast cancer drugs sold online
RICHMOND, B.C. - Health Canada is warning that it seized a number of unauthorized health products from a business in Richmond, B.C. The agency says it has seized 10 products from EPCA Shipping Inc., w...
Mar 21, 2017
Government lifts speed restrictions after spotting no whales in shipping lanes
OTTAWA - Transport Canada says it's lifting speed restrictions for cargo ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after recent surveillance failed to detect North Atlantic right whales in shipping lanes. The...
Aug 03, 2019
Suez Canal blockage adds to pressure points in global trade
The plight of a mammoth container ship stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal has highlighted still more pressure points in global trade, a year after supply chains were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Sa...
Mar 29, 2021
Nunavut hunters end blockades, mine pushes ahead with injunction against them
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Baffinland Irons Mine Corp. has pushed ahead with an injunction against a group of Nunavut hunters who blocked the road and airstrip at its Mary River mine in protest of a plan to e...
Feb 13, 2021
B.C. government and social media giants make deal on non-consensual intimate images
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government and social media giants have made what they call a "historic collaboration" for youth safety online. A joint statement from Premier David Eby and r...
May 15, 2024
Sick of extra fees online? It's drip pricing, and Canadian shoppers are fighting back
VANCOUVER - If you shop online you're likely familiar with the experience - you agree to buy for a certain price, but by the time you check out, the cost has ballooned with fees and surcharges. Place ...
Apr 07, 2024
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, will step down as CEO
NEW YORK - Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookstore and built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth, will step down later this year as CEO, a role he's had for nearly 30 years, to...
Feb 02, 2021
Would Canadians drive to border towns if new NAFTA raised duty-free limit?
OGDENSBURG, N.Y. - Crow Smith greets the deliveryman there to unload a pile of packages from his truck. The parcels and padded envelopes, many likely to contain holiday gifts, are loaded onto a trolle...
Dec 23, 2017
New maritime cybersecurity centre to fight pirates - and not the swashbuckling kind
MONTREAL - A new research centre created at Montreal's Polytechnique university will aim to protect ships from pirates - and they're not talking about Blackbeard or Captain Kidd. Canada's Maritime Cyb...
Jan 28, 2021