Canada

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is threatening to turn off the oil taps in a fight with British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Notley won’t say if she would cut off B.C. or the rest of Canada — or both — but says her government is ready …

OTTAWA — Canada is expected to announce Friday the start of formal free trade negotiations with the four-country South American trade bloc known as Mercosur. A spokesman for International Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the negotiations could begin in earnest in the next 10 days. That announcement will come after …

MONTREAL—A Montreal suburb’s plan to ban all smoking in public places is drawing mixed reactions, with one anti-tobacco advocate saying it will do more harm than good when it comes to second-hand smoke. Hampstead city council adopted a draft bylaw this week that would prohibit tobacco or marijuana smoking on …

OTTAWA—Canadian pulse farmers are pondering if it is even worth planting peas and lentils this spring, as steep tariffs from their No. 1 customer cut deep into their profit margins. However Gordon Bacon, CEO of Pulse Canada, hopes that if Canada can persuade India to stop requiring Canadian producers to …

Canada will use its presidency of the G7 to try to persuade the world’s richest and most industrialized countries to adopt ambitious goals for plastics recycling and waste reduction. “We are looking at a zero-plastics-waste charter,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday from Cancun, Mexico, where she was at an …

OTTAWA — Popular TV science personality Bill Nye put Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the spot Tuesday to explain Canada’s approval of a controversial pipeline which, if built, will increase the flow of oil from Alberta to the Pacific coast. “Tell us about the Kinder Morgan pipeline,” the American scientist …

In a bid to narrow the gender wage gap, Ontario will introduce new legislation forcing companies to include salary ranges in job ads and also track — and report — what they pay their workers. The move, to be announced by Premier Kathleen Wynne on Tuesday — two days before …

TORONTO — The photograph looks instantly odd — a lifeless face with mostly closed eyes — and realizing it is, in fact, a photo of a dead man, a suspected victim of a man who may be Canada’s most recent prolific serial killer, forces a sombre and ghoulish shiver. At …

Michael Coteau, already minister of children and youth services and responsible for anti-racism, is now in charge of a third big portfolio — community and social services. “I was obviously surprised,” Coteau told the Star. “I went to go see the premier, and an hour later I was being sworn …

KINGSTON, Ont.—A freight train derailment east of Kingston, Ont., has caused hours of delays for rail passengers in the province and led to cancellations of several Via routes out of Toronto. Trains travelling between Toronto and Montreal or Ottawa have been delayed by at least six hours, Via Rail said. …