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  • House passes a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban if Chinese owner refuses to sell

    March 13, 2024 - 4:17 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company's current ownership structure is a national security threat.

  • Alaska's Willow oil project is controversial. Here's why.

    March 13, 2023 - 5:59 PM

    JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration is approving a major oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say is counter to President Joe Biden's climate goals.

  • One 'black box' found in China Eastern plane crash

    March 23, 2022 - 2:59 AM

    WUZHOU, China (AP) — A Chinese aviation official said Wednesday that one of the two “black box” recorders had been found in severely damaged condition, two days after a China Eastern flight crashed in southern China with 132 people on board.

  • Wallets, IDs but no survivors found in China Eastern crash

    March 22, 2022 - 11:35 AM

    WUZHOU, China (AP) — Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.

  • Canadian ski resorts wrestle with pandemic-vs.-profit dilemma as COVID-19 persists

    September 27, 2020 - 7:00 AM

    CALGARY - Canadian ski resort operators planning for a season that begins in about two months are being forced to balance profits with protecting the health of their guests in view of a COVID-19 pandemic that shows few signs of ending.

  • Maple Leaf Foods rides retail demand to second-quarter profit

    July 30, 2020 - 9:30 AM

    Maple Leaf Foods Inc. overcame a steep drop in restaurant and food supply sales last quarter to furnish a $25-million profit thanks to a revenue boost in pork, retail consumption and Asian demand.

  • As U.S. lowers auto emissions standards, Canada is at a fuel efficiency crossroads

    May 06, 2019 - 7:55 AM

    TORONTO - The federal government has started to give away money to encourage people to buy electric cars, but before long it will have to decide how far it will go to force the market towards lower-emission vehicles.

  • Workers dig by hand to free dozens in Indonesia mine rubble

    February 27, 2019 - 6:41 AM

    BOLAANG MONGONDOW, Indonesia - A grueling search and rescue effort has saved 19 people from the debris of a collapsed illegal gold mine in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province but officials said Wednesday that several dozen remain trapped.

  • US, Russian astronauts land safely after rocket failure

    October 11, 2018 - 12:42 PM

    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - The problem came two minutes into the flight: The rocket carrying an American and a Russian to the International Space Station failed Thursday, triggering an emergency that sent their capsule into a steep, harrowing fall back to Earth.

  • 'Some baloney' in Trudeau's claims about supply management under new trade deal

    October 04, 2018 - 4:30 AM

    OTTAWA - "We have a supply management system that continues to be very much in place to protect both our agricultural sector and our consumers. This is something that continues. We have made modifications to the way it works, but we also know that it is something that will ensure the viability and the strength of supply management for years to come."
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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