Author: Silas Reed
The death of a Lethbridge teen whose body was found on a city street on Boxing Day, and his mother’s subsequent criminal charges, is putting a spotlight on addiction. On Dec. 26, 2024 Lethbridge police arrived on the scene of a dead 13-year-old boy.While rumours swirled for weeks in the southern Alberta city, official information was scarce until Wednesday afternoon when police charged a 38-year-old woman with criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life.The woman was the mother of the dead teenager and Lethbridge police said the two had been using drugs together at a…
By Jeremy Simes The Canadian Press Posted February 6, 2025 6:40 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size RCMP say the autopsies of four homicide victims found in a home in southern Saskatchewan are underway. They say the two men and two women discovered Tuesday on the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation have not been formally identified.Officers were again collecting evidence at the First Nation east of Regina. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Mounties have…
Like many small businesses across the country, Glitch Gifts in Saskatoon has pushed through many obstacles over the years and is now working to mitigate the threat of U.S. tariffs. “It’s just kind of exhausting you know, on the heels of COVID and the interest rate hikes,” said owner Mike Erman. “It just feels like there’s been so many things just heaped on small business right now that this is another big hurdle that we’re just going to have to get over.”Businesses are preparing to navigate potential tariffs imposed by the United States, as well as the effects of retaliation…
U.S. officials say a Colombian man who was living in Quebec has been extradited and arraigned in connection with the case of a pregnant Mexican woman who died while trying to cross a frigid river after illegally entering the United States in 2023. The U.S. attorney’s office for the northern District of New York has charged Jhader Augusto Uribe-Tobar, 36, with three smuggling-related counts in relation to the death of Ana Karen Vasquez-Flores.The body of 33-year-old Vasquez-Flores was found in the Great Chazy River near Champlain, N.Y., on Dec. 14, 2023, two days after her husband alerted a border patrol…
Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. trade representative, said on Thursday that a universal tariff needs further study to gauge its impact on rising U.S. trade deficits, and put countries on notice they must lower import barriers to maintain access to the U.S. market. Greer told a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing that Trump’s campaign promise of imposing at least a 10% universal tariff would be examined under an inauguration day trade memo, which ordered a report by April 1.He said the study would also examine the impact of a growing U.S. goods trade deficit, which on Wednesday reached a record $1.2 trillion for all of 2024 as imports…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadian pipeline operator Trans Mountain is looking at expansion projects in the short and long terms that could add between 200,000 and 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of capacity to the company’s system, Jason Balasch, a vice president at the firm, said on Thursday. The pipeline, which can currently carry up to 890,000 bpd of crude from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast for export, has been in the spotlight after U.S. President Donald Trump said his country would slap 10 per cent tariffs on Canadian oil imports.The line has offered a way…
A lawsuit alleging two former Progressive Conservative staffers offered to use “backchannel contacts” to help rezone land may have created an opening for opposition leaders to try and focus Ontario’s election campaign on past government scandals. A statement of claim filed with a Toronto court makes allegations about Ryan Amato, who was chief of staff to Steve Clark when the Ford government briefly removed land from the Greenbelt, and Shiv Raj, who worked in the premier’s office.The lawsuit alleges the two men, along with a company called Frontier Group, offered to help get rezoning approval for several parcels of land…
Canada is “deeply concerned” about the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the United States’ lead foreign aid agency, federal government officials say amid growing alarm about the impact to global charities and aid programs. The administration said this week it is pulling all employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) off the job and out of the field globally by the end of Friday unless they are deemed essential.The agency’s website was replaced with that removal notice on Monday, its social media accounts are down, and all funding has been frozen as U.S. President Donald Trump and his…
Quebec’s labour tribunal has ordered a car dealership in south-central Quebec to rehire an employee it had fired after he was convicted of sexual assault. Administrative Judge Annie Laprade said the business had failed to show the employee’s crime was linked to his job or that the publicity surrounding the case would prevent him from carrying out his responsibilities.“The employer has not demonstrated an objective link between the convictions of criminal offences and the employee’s employment,” Laprade wrote. “Even considering the media coverage, they do not have a detrimental, tangible, concrete and real impact on his ability to exercise his…
By David Baxter The Canadian Press Posted February 6, 2025 3:04 pm Updated February 6, 2025 3:05 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez-Ferrada has resigned from cabinet and as the Liberal party national campaign co-chair. Martinez-Ferrada shared her resignation letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on social media, which says she intends to run to become mayor of Montreal.“This was not an easy decision, but it is one that I know is right, in which I will continue to fight for progressive values,” Martinez-Ferrada wrote in her resignation letter.“The desire to serve the city…
