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For Tre Sanderson, cooking Caribbean food is not only baked in to his DNA, it’s his pride and joy. “Growing up in a household full of flavour, you know, my mom would always cook amazing, classic Caribbean dishes,” the 28-year-old told Global News one afternoon. “That love of food and …

More than four years later, Canada’s cannabis industry is starting to come down from a post-legalization high, experts say. “Producers have been scaling back, laying people off, closing facilities for really over three years,” said Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. …

​Music industry leaders from across Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba gathered in Regina this weekend for the Very Prairie 2022 Music Summit. Focused on building careers, businesses and the local industry at large, the fifth edition of the conference had stakeholders and artists sharing expertise and taking questions on topics like …

After the dust settled, organizers of the 109th Grey Cup in Regina called the event a tremendous success. However, that sentiment is not shared by some in the restaurant industry. “I don’t even want to do a Grey Cup again. I just felt like we were left out,” says Kelly …

This week’s snowfall has southern Ontario’s skiers and snowboarders getting ready for a new season and experts say this could be a banner year on the province’s slopes. Paul Pinchbeck, president and CEO of the Canadian Ski Council (CSC), says he expects an exceptional season after the last three were disrupted by the …

Federal Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne will represent Canada at former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was scheduled to visit Japan and attend Tuesday’s funeral, but cancelled those plans to oversee recovery efforts after post-tropical storm Fiona ravaged much of Atlantic Canada and …

Despite a provincial grant program to recruit new truck drivers, Alberta’s trucking industry is still struggling to fill thousands of vacant driver roles — and it’s in part due to challenges with insurance. Harjeet Singh, owner of Alberta Truck Training and Driver Education, says he thinks the driver shortage is …

The City of Toronto is giving its growing film and television production industry the power to continue to go green. The city announced Monday it will give production crews access to Toronto’s power grid at two highly-utilized film locations — Ashbridges Bay Park and Sir Casimir Gzowski Park. The city said the plan …

Quebec has three per cent of the world’s fresh water, but municipalities west of the island of Montreal are increasingly concerned about their supply. Officials want the next government to force industries to pay more for the water they use. Once a week, municipal workers in the town of Saint-Lazare, …

As questions loom about how Canada’s oilpatch will spend its record profits, Alberta’s rural municipalities are once again calling for what they’re owed in outstanding property taxes. Jason Schneider, a director with the Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA), says the oil boom is good news, and the majority of companies are paying their …