Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the Agropur Co-operative is recalling some of its milk products in Ontario and Quebec due to the presence of sanitizer.

The 2020 Paperweight “Awards” for the worst examples of useless and excessive regulations were announced Monday, kicking off the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)’s 11th annual Red Tape Awareness Week.

Ontario cannabis shoppers scooped up thousands of edibles and vape products within an hour of them going on sale for the first time on the Ontario Cannabis Store’s website.The online retailer experienced 2,000 transactions on Thursday in the hour after 70 products–cannabis-infused chocolates, cookies, soft chews, mints, tea and vapes–were made available at 9 a.m.

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is holding out the possibility of imposing a carbon tax in his province as he tries to fashion a green plan that will meet with the federal government's approval.But he's simultaneously warning that Ottawa will have to show some flexibility if it wants him to continue playing the role of bridge-builder to the other two Prairie provinces, where talk of western alienation and outright separation has escalated since Justin Trudeau's Liberals won re-election on Oct.

Pension funding behind unrest at Co-op Refinery Complex On December 3, 2019, 729 unionized workers at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex, an 800-acre site in the city’s northeast sector that produces up to 145,000 barrels per day, went on strike to protect what they saw as a challenge from management on their pensions.

The Convenience U CARWACS Show is proud to announce that the OPCA has chosen The Convenience U CARWACS Show as the site of their annual conference for 2020.

Two Canadian health advocacy groups launched a public awareness campaign Wednesday taking aim at flavoured vape products, with a pointed advertisement that highlights how the products are marketed to children.

The former owner of an Alaska crude oil refinery has been ordered to pay millions in damages for releasing large amounts of a refinery solvent, sulfolane, into groundwater and polluting hundreds of residents' drinking water wells.

Ontario cannabis store shoppers with a hankering for edibles were out of luck Monday.Most of the province's licensed retailers had yet to receive their first shipments of 59 products including soft chews, cookies and chocolates that were slated to start appearing in stores that day.But the Ontario Cannabis Store, the province's pot distributor, said products are on their way and likely already in some shoppers' hands.“Some stores outside the GTA have received products,'' spokesperson Daffyd Roderick said.Roderick said he could not name which stores have received shipments of edibles for security reasons, but said they were all outside the GTA.Those that have placed orders are guaranteed to get them on the regular delivery dates that their other cannabis products usually arrive on, he said.The OCS had previously warned that the supply of edibles could be tight and sell out quickly.

Alberta is promising to continue its fight against the federal consumer carbon tax as the price of gasoline in the province is set to jump.