Unpublished Newswire

The Pleasant Street Diner in Dartmouth, N.S., serves about 1,000 pounds of fresh haddock per week. But early this month, their supplier increased the price of the historically affordable fish by 40 per cent, or about $5 per pound. Overnight, their weekly haddock expenses went up $5,000.

The federal government’s decision to allow British Columbia to collect royalties from a proposed new pipeline to the West Coast sets a dangerous precedent for internal Canadian trade by allowing one province to charge a toll for the transportation of goods from another province, analysts warn. Allowing B.C. to charge a pipeline operator for passing through its province, they say, could establish a new framework where provinces could also start charging each other for other types of commercial traffic, perhaps including even transport trucks or rail cars that travel through another...