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Whatcom County farmers are asking their governor to lobby B.C. to crack down on farm waste flowing south from Fraser Valley agricultural lands near Zero Avenue and fouling cross-border fish-bearing streams. State farmers say they are doing their part, with stream improvements and state legislation designed to control manure run-off from dairy farms, but say enforcement remains lax at best on the B.C. side of the border.
A summit of Southeast Asian leaders to discuss issues ranging from terrorism to South China Sea tensions opened Tuesday, overshadowed by the Philippine president's intemperate comments in his debut appearance at the annual meeting. The insult was made more egregious because of who the target was - President Barack Obama.
Canada's autoworkers' union, which steps up pressure in contract talks by naming a strike target on Tuesday, may see its ability to win concessions undermined by outside factors, ranging from high power rates to manufacturers' increased reliance on more costly imported parts, industry experts say. The top priority for the union, named Unifor, is to persuade Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor and General Motors to pledge to produce new vehicle models in Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is flying to China on Monday, adding to the long list of countries he has visited since winning last year's federal election. Yet there's one place closer to home that Trudeau hasn't set foot in since forming a government: Canada's far north.
Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper is escorted into the House of Commons by M.P.s Art Hanger and John Reynolds to take his seat May 21, 2002. Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper speaks at the annual Ahmadiyya Muslim convention in Toronto, June 26, 2005.
The U.S. presidential election is looming large in the Canadian government's summer retreat, with U.S. trade ties among the discussion points for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet. Trudeau and his ministers are holding a quarterly retreat in Sudbury, Ontario, on Sunday and Monday.
It shall soon be time to mark the first anniversary of the Liberal win in the 2015 Canadian election. Perhaps it is a time to reflect on the changes Justin Trudeau has made in Canada in that short time... There is no doubt at all that Justin Trudeau has extended the normal "honeymoon" period of any new government.
A year ago, my children were abducted to a war zone in Iraq by their father while on a court-approved "vacation to Europe." The past year has been an excruciating - and unfulfilled - quest to bring Sharvahn, Rojevahn, Dersim and Meitan home.
Cascade Aerospace today celebrated with suppliers who over the past year have been pivotal in successfully supporting the company in its domestic and international contracts with particular focus on the Royal Canadian Air Force's CC-130H and CC-130J Hercules fleets. The six winners of the 2016 Supplier Awards were honored today at the Aerospace, Defence and Security Expo taking place this week in Abbotsford, BC.
'Anna was the first girl I ever kissed.' College student told police he killed his ex and two others at Washington house party because he was jealous after seeing his 'dream girl' with another guy Pest-control giant Terminix pays out $87m to family left paralyzed by fumes that exterminators sprayed in their luxury Caribbean vacation condo Gawker Media founder Nick Denton files for personal bankruptcy listing debts of over $280million in wake of Hulk Hogan lawsuit Wikileaks chief says he has 'quite a lot of material' from Hillary's campaign and will release it in stages for maximum publicity Why MEAT is as bad for your waistline as sugar: Protein is fuelling the obesity crisis and 'should come with a warning label' Zika crisis in Florida: Officials report ten locally transmitted cases and say mosquitoes 'have now infected 14 people' in Miami The story of Humayun Khan: The UVA-educated ... (more)
Pressure mounted Thursday on Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, with lawmakers demanding he go on leave and be held accountable after U.S. officials initiated action to seize more than $1 billion they say was stolen from a state investment fund by people close to the premier. That fund, known as 1MDB, was created in 2009 by Najib to promote economic development projects.
A Canadian affiliate of the Clinton Foundation that has raised millions from mining executives has spent far more on salaries and administrative costs than charitable programming in the two most recent years for which numbers are available, according to financial statements from the Canada Revenue Agency. The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership , a registered charity based in Vancouver, B.C., devoted $737,441 - amounting to 78 per cent of its expenditures - to management and administration in 2014.
In what was almost certainly his last visit to Canada as U.S. president, Barack Obama held court for nearly an hour before a joint session of the House of Commons and the Senate yesterday, basking in applause and heaping praise on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with whom he's become fast friends. But even as he lauded Canada for such values as integrity, human rights and fair play, he also urged it to pay its full share to NATO.
Britain got its first taste Wednesday of a future outside the EU as Europe's leaders met without premier David Cameron and warned London it must accept EU migrants to win access to the bloc's free trade zone. The heads of government, meeting without a British representative for the first time in 40 years, said in a statement that Britain would be treated as a "third country" with both "rights and obligations".
Obama is traveling to Ottawa, Canada for the North America Leaders' Summit with Canadian Prime Minist... . President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 29, 2016, to board Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., than onto Ottawa, Canada.
The United States and Mexico are committing to join Canada in boosting the use of wind, solar and other carbon-free sources of electricity to help North America meet a goal of generating at least 50 percent of its energy from "clean" sources by 2025. The pledge is to be made today as part of a summit of North American leaders in Ottawa, Ontario.
Congressman: Plans for new Canadian train service could provide WNYers direct link to Toronto, open new door for Canadian visitors to Niagara Falls Congressman Brian Higgins is advocating for a direct binational pedestrian connection to accommodate Canadian GO Train passengers and better facilitate cross-border tourism. Higgins' push comes following a June 28 announcement by Ontario's transportation minister of expanded GO Transit service between Toronto and Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laughs as he speaks with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a session on carbon pricing at the United Nations climate change summit, Monday November 30, 2015 in Le Bourget, France. A plan on how Canada will meet a promise to lift visas for Mexicans will be announced later this month when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Mexico's president as part of the Three Amigos summit.
Send a selfie with proof you voted via your voter receipt and Tramps Against Trump promise to send you a nude photo "I respect women, I love women, I cherish women," Donald Trump said at a campaign stop last year, a sentiment he has repeated many times since, in many creepy ways. If polls can be considered women's response, then according to pretty much all the polls ever , the feeling is definitely not mutual.
Prime Minister David Cameron may go down in history as the man who led Britain out of the European Union, but his political defeat in the Brexit referendum means there is a strong chance he will not be around by the time it all becomes official. As Britain voted to become the first state ever to withdraw from the bloc on Thursday, Cameron's epitaph may have been sealed after six years in power.