It didn't take long for Donald Trump's new tariffs on softwood lumber to echo in Ontario's Madawaska Valley — a forestry-dependent area almost exactly 1,000 kilometres due north of the U.S. capital.
B.C. premier and lumber lobby are vowing to fight for forestry workers after the Trump administration announced it will impose a tariff of about 20 per cent on Canadian softwood lumber imports.
U.S. has fired the opening shot in a latest softwood-lumber war against Canada, with the Trump administration announcing its first batch of duties on imported wood in the neighbourhood of 20 per cent.
Premier Christy Clark often highlights the fact B.C. has the lowest jobless rate in Canada, but rural and remote areas in the province are struggling with major industry downturns and job losses.
After 173 days of hearings, a lawyer for the Ontario Securities Commission kicked off closing arguments in the case against five Sino−Forest executives accused of perpetrating a massive fraud in 2012.
Environmental groups are demanding that both Quebec and Ontario's governments maintain strong conservation, wildlife protection, and community engagement practices for loggers in the boreal forests.
First Nation warns that logging would worsen decades-old mercury contamination crisis on their land, applies for judicial review against both the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of th