National Business

Before COVID-19, it might have been unthinkable to have a stranger picking out bananas or selecting the perfect pork roast for your Sunday dinner.

About 70 faculty members at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Metro Vancouver will receive lay-off notices Friday after a "sharp decline" in international students resulted in a revenue loss of about $49 million.

British Columbia's government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the "human-caused disaster" coming in like a freight train from the United States.

MONTREAL — Montreal's metro system will see more police patrols and a crackdown on loitering, transit officials said Thursday, citing the fact the network has become a last-resort shelter for people struggling with drug addiction and mental illness.

TORONTO — Health associations are urging governments to ensure Canadian patients don't get caught in the crossfire of the ongoing trade war with the U.S.

WINNIPEG — Walmart Canada says it will stop selling long-bladed weapons such as machetes across the country, both in-store and online.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he agrees in principle with a U.S.

SASKATOON — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says workers at canola crushing plants in his province would be out of jobs should China move ahead with planned retaliatory tariffs on canola oil and meal.

In one of history's little-known ironies, the Maple Leaf country pushing back against Donald Trump’s annexation bid is also host to a tiny, remote restaurant and brothel that helped launch the U.S. president's family fortune more than 100 years ago.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Opposition Leader John Rustad has introduced legislation that if passed would put a stop residents from having to change their clocks twice a year.