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1 week ago | 
castanet.net | David Baxter |Nicole Ireland |Christopher Reynolds
More than 67 per cent of the drugs seized during a month-long cross-country Canada Border Services Agency operation were coming into Canada from the United States, the agency says. Operation Blizzard took place from Feb. 12 to March 13 and targeted illegal drugs and precursor chemicals transported by mail, air cargo or marine container, the CBSA said in a news release Wednesday. The agency said it focused on shipments going to the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Josh Boak |Tara Deschamps |Bill Graveland |Christopher Reynolds
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well a 25% tariff on smartphones unless those products are made in America. The threats, delivered over social media, reflect Trump's ability to disrupt the global economy with a burst of typing, as well as the reality that his tariffs have yet to produce the trade deals he is seeking or the return of domestic manufacturing he has promised voters.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | David Baxter |Christopher Reynolds |Sarah Ritchie
Last year, the Gulf of St. Lawrence recorded its highest maximum surface temperature and lowest seasonal volume of ice cover in decades, say researchers with the federal Fisheries Department. Surface temperatures and ice cover are directly related to air temperature, said Peter Galbraith, a research scientist in physical oceanography at the agency's Maurice Lamontagne Institute in Mont-Joli, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | David Baxter |Christopher Reynolds |Sarah Ritchie
Conservative Kathy Borrelli has won the Ontario riding of Windsor—Tecumseh—Lake Shore after a judicial recount confirmed her victory today by just four votes. The Liberals called for a judicial recount, after the initial validated results following the election on April 28 saw incumbent Liberal Irek Kusmierczyk lose by 77 votes. The recount began on Tuesday and the final results were announced this morning.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds |Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison
Alberta's public safety minister says provincial and federal funding will create six teams of urban wildfire crews across the province. Mike Ellis says having six more teams means Alberta will have eight crews with specialized training to respond to fires threatening communities. He says the teams will be based in municipal fire departments and include firefighters with both structural and wildland fire training.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds |Josh Boak |Stan Choe |Alex Veiga
Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane. This seasoned Boeing 737 previously cruised the skies above Europe and Central Africa for now-defunct carriers in France, Gabon and the Congo. But now its trips are all-Canadian, shuttling people, food and building materials between the country’s second-biggest city and a village of 2,100.
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds |Fakiha Baig |Aaron Sousa |Allison Jones
Small businesses and shipping firms are preparing for a possible Canada Post strike as early as next week, a disruption they warn could strain supply chains and freeze millions of packages as well as billions of dollars in sales. Mom-and-pop shops and e-commerce companies have started making alternative arrangements to get their packages to consumers and clients — but many are already frustrated.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Stan Choe |Craig Lord |Christopher Reynolds |Yuri Kageyama
Stan Choe, The Associated Press - May 9, 2025 / 7:55 am | Story: 549425U.S. stocks are drifting Friday as Wall Street heads toward the end of an unusually quiet week. The S&P 500 was up 0.4% in morning trading and on track to erase what had been a small loss for the week.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds
Play Airlines is pulling out of Canada less than two years after entering the market. The discount carrier's schedule shows that starting in late April it will stop its four flights per week from Hamilton, Ont., to its home base in Reykjavik, Iceland, which it uses as a stopover for trips to Europe. Hamilton-based Tripcentral.ca founder Richard Vanderlubbe says the updated schedule means Play is making its exit from the Canadian market.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
castanet.net | Christopher Reynolds
Barry Choi has been noticing fewer filled seats on some of his flights over the past year. “People are travelling a little bit less,” said Choi, who runs the Money We Have personal finance and travel website, which has him on a plane every four to six weeks. The trend is one he wouldn’t have anticipated two years ago, when the urge to get away was nearly palpable after COVID-19 border closures ended and air travel became possible once more.
