Federal labour board orders Transport Canada to pay thousands of dollars to public servant for 'highly reprehensible' hiring practices

OTTAWA —  How quickly Alberta agrees to reach a higher tax for its industrial carbon emitters and what rules underpin the system emerged Thursday as one of the outstanding issues in a deal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is negotiating with the country’s largest oil-producing province.  Senior officials from both levels of government have been trying to hammer out an agreement, which a memorandum of understanding Carney and...