B.C. may join N.L. legal challenge to federal equalization payments, Eby says
British Columbia Premier David Eby has found an ally in his claims of unequal funding from the federal government: Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Ford says carbon price has to go or Trudeau will lose next election
Tuesday brought another day of attacks against the Liberals' carbon pricing policy, even as Trudeau sought to catch Canadians' attention by announcing billions in new spending for housing construction.
N.L. premier asks Trudeau for meeting to discuss carbon price alternatives
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey penned a letter to Trudeau over the weekend asking for an "emergency meeting of leaders."
'My job is not to be popular,' Trudeau says after premiers urge him to dump carbon price hike
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed back on Wednesday on growing demands from premiers to dump the planned April 1 hike to the consumer carbon levy, saying leaders must tackle both affordability and climate change.
Premiers urge feds to advance infrastructure plan to boost economic growth
Canada's premiers ended their annual three-day conference on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, with a call for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on infrastructure needs ranging from highways to housing.
Atlantic fishers decry Japan's Russian crab imports, but Tokyo says Canada exports negligible
Atlantic fishers are feeling the pinch as Japan brings in cheap Russian product rather than Canadian snow crabs, with federal ministers and provincial premiers saying they are raising the issue with Japanese officials.
A luxury fishing lodge vacation, flights on a private jet and the close relationship between a premier, town councillors and a billionaire angling to build a hydrogen plant
Allegations of patronage and a cozy relationship between a billionaire and a Canadian premier are threatening to upend a multibillion-dollar green energy project.
Trudeau announces $300-million relief fund for storm-battered Atlantic Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, announced a $300-million fund to help the East Coast recover from the ravages of post-tropical storm Fiona.
Trudeau visits N.L. post Fiona, promises Ottawa 'will be there' to help
Distraught residents of a southwestern Newfoundland town shared stories of survival with Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, as the prime minister got a close look at yet another coastal town shattered on the weekend by post-tropical storm Fiona.
Future is uncertain for displaced Port aux Basques residents after Fiona
Denise Anderson shouted a list of items into her phone over the sound of pouring rain, along with instructions on how to find them: clean socks, a new pack of underwear, prized pieces of jewelry and important documents.
Guilbeault rejects Atlantic Canada's request for climate plan extension
The federal environment minister on Thursday, September 1, 2022, rejected a request from the premiers of Atlantic Canada for an extension to the deadline to submit their plans to tackle carbon emissions.
New research says leave 40 per cent of existing fossil fuels in the ground
Exploring for more oil, delineation of new fields, constructing new oil infrastructure and commissioning new projects are all activities that waste Canada's shrinking carbon budget.
Tears and hugs as 166 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Newfoundland
Nine-year-old Zoriana Shapoval had barely rounded the corner at the St. John's International Airport on Monday, May 9, 2022, night when she saw her big sister Sofiia Shapoval waiting in the crowd, and ran straight for her outstretched arms.
Provinces restrict gatherings as COVID rages across Canada
Large parts of Canada are starting to hunker down, with new restrictions coming into effect as a fifth wave of COVID-19 fuelled by the Omicron variant saw thousands of new cases across the country over the weekend.
Trudeau sinks billions into N.L.’s troubled Muskrat Falls megaproject
Ahead of a likely federal election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped into Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday with a multibillion-dollar bailout package designed to beat down the soaring costs of the contentious Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project and avert a feared bankruptcy.