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Speciality grocery chain Sunterra Market may be forced to close after its parent company, Sunterra Farms Ltd., filed for bankruptcy protection in late March.
April 2, 2025 - 20:02 | Drew Stremick | Global News - Canada
British Columbia Premier David Eby says a youth in government care “shouldn’t have died” earlier this year and that her death represents a “failure.”The province’s Opposition Conservative Party used much of its time during Wednesday’s question period to grill the government on its treatment of children in care, while family members of the 18-year-old who died in January watched from the gallery.The Indigenous teen, who The Canadian Press has chosen not to name, died while in the care of Usma Nuu-chah-nulth Family and Child Services, an agency of the Ministry of Children and Family...
April 2, 2025 - 19:55 | Ashley Joannou | The Globe and Mail
A bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators voted in favour of ending the state of emergency that allows the Trump administration to unilaterally impose tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing that the White House overreached by targeting its northern neighbour.The vote is the most significant Republican rebuke of the Trump administration’s second term, with four Republicans – Kentucky senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, as well as Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, and Susan Collins, of Maine – breaking rank. The vote passed 51 to 48. The win is largely symbolic because it’s unlikely to have any...
April 2, 2025 - 19:54 | Kathryn Blaze Baum | The Globe and Mail
Easton Lucas was beaming Wednesday after limiting the Washington Nationals to one hit over five scoreless innings in his first major league start, a 4-2 interleague win for the Toronto Blue Jays.
April 2, 2025 - 19:30 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Alberta’s utilities minister says that, contrary to a new report, the province’s electricity grid operator doesn’t discriminate against U.S. power generators.The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative listed Alberta’s non-profit electrical grid operator as a trade irritant in a report this week, claiming Montana-based electricity producers aren’t being afforded fair access to the Alberta market.The report, updated annually, claims the Alberta Electricity System Operator, or AESO, unfairly favours electricity generated within the province over equally priced U.S. energy during times of...
April 2, 2025 - 19:29 | Jack Farrell | The Globe and Mail
A Manitoba judge has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison in the stabbing death of her ex-boyfriend, whose killing left a “significant” impact on family, friends and the First Nation they lived on.Sheryl Leanne Thompson was initially charged with second-degree murder in the death of her former partner Lance Moosetail in 2022 but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.The two had been in a relationship for approximately two and a half years and lived together in Moosetail’s home on the Pine Creek First Nation, northwest of Winnipeg.
April 2, 2025 - 19:22 | | The Globe and Mail
