Industry

AGLC plans to grant five cannabis retail licenses each week from now on

MEDICINE HAT -- The freeze on cannabis retail licenses has been lifted in Alberta.Alberta Gaming Liquor Cannabis (AGLC) has decided there's enough producers to sustain more cannabis retail stores."We'...

May 30, 2019 Cannabis shop

Montreal researchers create audible hockey puck for visually impaired players

MONTREAL -- A team of Montreal university researchers has developed an audible hockey puck they say could revolutionize the sport for blind players.For years, visually impaired hockey players have use...

May 19, 2019 The Canadian Press

Scheer promises coast-to-coast energy corridor as he outlines economic vows

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledged Thursday to pursue a coast-to-coast energy corridor, achieve Canadian oil independence within a decade and adjust mortgage rules with the aim of maki...

May 16, 2019 The Canadian Press

It may be protein based - but, it is not beef!

CALGARY, AB -- Cattle producers across the country are backing Quebec colleagues who have filed a complaint over a popular new meatless burger that is being advertised as ``plant-based meat.'' The Que...

Andrew Snook May 16, 2019 Credit to Beyond Meat website

Qinetiq receives $51 million contract from armed forces; work to be completed in Medicine Hat

Photo by Bob SchneiderMEDICINE HAT, AB - A company that helps design target systems for military customers around the world has been awarded a significant contract from the Canadian Armed Forces, and ...

May 11, 2019 Photo by Bob Schneider

Canfor announces temporary shutdown of BC Lumber Mills

CRANBROOK, B.C. -- First it was oil, then canola and now, lumber.Canfor Corporation has announced that they will be temporarily curtailing operations at all British Columbia dimension mills effective ...

Apr 25, 2019 Canfor operations in British Columbia and Alberta. Mills are shown by the graphic of two trees