The Calgary Police Service is asking for the public’s help identifying a “person of interest” in connection with two separate incidents of Teslas being set on fire on March 18 and 19. Tesla vehicles and dealerships in Canada and the United States have been targeted in recent weeks by protesters upset with company owner Elon
GM Canada says it is pausing production at its electric vehicle (EV) plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, due to low demand for its EV offerings, laying off hundreds of employees. The plant, located east of London, Ont., produces Chevrolet BrightDrop electric delivery vans and electric batteries for passenger vehicles. It started production on the vans in
Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he plans to tackle problematic online content, which was the intention of proposed legislation previously introduced by the Trudeau government. Bill C-63, intended to deal with online harms, became obsolete when Parliament was prorogued in January. During a rally in Hamilton on April 10, as he was confronted by a
OTTAWA—Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he does not support the idea of Ottawa increasing reciprocal tariffs on the United States because it would negatively impact the export market in his province. “We have been very apprehensive, even with respect to very targeted tariffs that are in place today,” Moe said during a fireside chat at
Saskatchewan is releasing a digital campaign to attract doctors from the United States. The province said it has a new digital campaign called “Saskatchewan is Calling” set to launch in spring designed to attract physicians from outside the province, including the United States. “We want to showcase to Americans why Saskatchewan offers them a new
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met with Quebec Minister of Justice and Canadian Relations Simon Jolin-Barrette on April 10 to discuss “provincial autonomy.” “Alberta and Quebec have significant common interests with respect to countering overreach by the federal government into matters of exclusive provincial jurisdiction,” Smith said in an April 10 post on the X platform.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of James Busch, who escaped from a Vancouver Island prison in 2019 with another inmate, then killed a man who lived near the institution. Busch and fellow inmate Zachary Armitage escaped from William Head Institution, a minimum security prison, on July 7, 2019,
Health Canada has announced the recall of two Fisher-Price toys that may pose a choking risk to babies and toddlers. No injuries have been reported in Canada with either toy, but there have been reports in the United States of components breaking on both toys, although no children were hurt, Health Canada said in the
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a comment made by one of his MLAs referring to federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as a “terrorist” was “very inappropriate.” Saskatchewan Party MLA Racquel Hilbert made the remark in the legislature on March 25 as the provincial government introduced the budget. While criticizing the federal government, she alluded to
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong is suggesting that Liberal Leader Mark Carney is breaking the “caretaker convention” by pausing his election campaign for the third time to address the intensifying global trade conflict initiated by U.S. tariffs, arguing that Carney is limiting a future government on that file. The Caretaker Convention was established by