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'First thing out of the gate': Saskatchewan budget to address tariffs from two fronts
REGINA - Saskatchewan's finance minister says more details are coming Wednesday as the province introduces a 2025 budget facing a vise-squeeze from both China and the United States."The first thing ou...
Mar 18, 2025
Conservatives say there will be no media seats on Poilievre's election campaign
OTTAWA - The Conservative party is breaking from tradition and will not be allowing media onboard planes and buses for Pierre Poilievre's election campaign. In an email Tuesday, national campaign dire...
Mar 18, 2025
Mountain biking groups 'stretched thin' with trail work as popularity grows
VANCOUVER - The outdoors were a refuge for many during the pandemic as people hit their local trail networks to mountain bike, hike, run and walk, but advocates in British Columbia say the value of tr...
Mar 18, 2025
B.C. geoduck exports facing possible devastation as Chinese tariffs loom
VANCOUVER - British Columbia seafood producers are bracing for impact as China is slated to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on geoduck clams, a move that could devastate the multimillion-dollar export indu...
Mar 18, 2025
Mountain biking groups 'stretched thin' with trail work as popularity grows
VANCOUVER - The outdoors were a refuge for many during the pandemic as people hit their local trail networks to mountain bike, hike, run and walk, but advocates in British Columbia say the value of tr...
Mar 18, 2025
Canada's Diallo falls short in Miami Open qualifying with loss to Holt
MIAMI - Montreal's Gabriel Diallo fell just short of qualifying for the main draw of the Miami Open tennis tournament with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 loss to American Brandon Holt on Tuesday. The six-foot-eight ...
Mar 18, 2025
Sceptres' Carter learned plenty while rehabbing in becoming steady blueline presence
TORONTO - Megan Carter didn't have an ideal start to her Professional Women's Hockey League career, but she picked up valuable learning experience from it. The 23-year-old defender, who was a second-r...
Mar 18, 2025
Jays pitching prospect Tiedemann making strides after Tommy John surgery last summer
Nestled in a minor-league workout area away from the big-league training fields at the Blue Jays' player development complex, Ricky Tiedemann lowers his six-foot-four 220-pound frame into a deep squat...
Mar 18, 2025
Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, accordi...
Mar 18, 2025
Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, accordi...
Mar 18, 2025