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British Columbia is pushing back against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s proposal for a bitumen pipeline to B.C.’s northern coast. It was among the topics of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting Monday with premiers in Saskatoon, where the assembled leaders are discussing a draft list of “national interest” projects to be fast-tracked through the approval process.Smith said any project list that doesn’t include new pipelines would send a bad message to Alberta as separatist sentiment flares up in that province.Smith said she wants to see a bitumen pipeline built to ship oil to the Port of Prince Rupert on B.C.’s northern coast. 2:17 Danielle Smith’s pipeline push at premier’s meeting gets supp...

By Ashley Joannou The Canadian Press Posted June 2, 2025 7:43 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The British Columbia government is commissioning an independent review of the province’s home-share program, months after an inquest into the starvation death of a woman with Down syndrome in a Port Coquitlam share home. A statement from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction says the review will assess safety in home-sharing arrangements, standards that promote quality of life, as well as accountability and oversight measures. ...

By Kyle Duggan The Canadian Press Posted June 2, 2025 7:31 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s premiers are meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in person for the first time since the federal election to pitch which major projects they think should get quickly tracked. The recent campaign saw Carney vow to slash federal approval times on major infrastructure projects considered to be in the national interest to help make the country an “energy superpower.”The full list of big industrial projects they’re discussing is being kept secret, since they don’t want to send a bad signal abou...

In the week before the 45th general election got underway on March 23, Liberal MPs engaged in a pre-election spending blitz, announcing $3.86 billion in funding commitments for 411 different projects across the country, a Global News analysis shows. Press releases and announcements about those funding commitments were made by 38 different Liberal MPs in that final week, who handed out cheques in 37 different communities across the country, from Yellowknife to Winnipeg to St. John’s.On the day before the election started alone, 26 different MPs were busy handing $1.8 billion worth of cheques to support 116 different projects across the country.And yet, that’s been the pattern since the for each of the last four Parliaments during which Global News has maintained a database of every spending...