Business & MarketsBritish Columbia
Port of Vancouver clears its grain backlog after a three-week rail repair
Twenty-nine vessels were waiting at anchor at the peak. The last of them loads this week.
The Pacific Post · Aug 10
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NewsAlberta
The crosstown bus map gets its first redraw in a decade
Fewer routes, straighter lines, and a promise that the ones that remain will actually come.
The Edmonton Echo · Aug 10
NewsBritish Columbia
Fraser sockeye return is the strongest in twelve years, DFO says
Test fisheries near Mission counted 4.6 million fish through July. Biologists credit cool spring flows and four years of restricted openings.
The Pacific Post · Aug 10
PoliticsAlberta
Transit operating grants get a new formula, and the cities do the math
The new money follows ridership instead of population. For a city whose trains are full, that changes the ask.
The Edmonton Echo · Aug 10
Business & MarketsAlberta
Canola contracts move early as growers watch a dry June
Elevators north of the river are signing at levels last seen in 2023, and nobody wants to be the last one to price.
The Prairie Dispatch · Aug 10
EnergyAlberta
Montney permits climb as two operators add rigs near Wembley
Nineteen new licences west of the city this quarter, the most since 2022 — and this round comes with water plans attached.
Grande Prairie Gazette · Aug 10
PoliticsBritish Columbia
Province tables tighter short-term rental rules before the fall session
The registry gets teeth, the platforms get liability, and the resort-town exemptions get one more review.
The Pacific Post · Aug 10
EnergyBritish Columbia
Province defers logging on 2,100 hectares in the Nass Valley
The deferral covers three cutblocks approved in 2019, and lands the question of long-term protection with a joint planning table that has not met since March.
Kermode Chronicle · Aug 10
EnergySaskatchewan
Potash on the water: what a reopened Baltic route means for Saskatchewan's mines
Shipping through the Baltic resumed this month after two years of rerouting. The first contracts priced off the shorter route land in September.
Western Wire staff · Aug 10
Across the four provinces
NewsTunnelling ends on the Broadway subway, three months ahead of scheduleThe Pacific Post · Aug 10
Interior wildfire smoke pushes Metro Vancouver to its worst August air rating since 2023
The Pacific Post · Aug 10Port of Vancouver clears its grain backlog after a three-week rail repair
The Pacific Post · Aug 10Fraser sockeye return is the strongest in twelve years, DFO says
The Pacific Post · Aug 10
Business & MarketsCanola contracts move early as growers watch a dry JuneThe Prairie Dispatch · Aug 10
The crosstown bus map gets its first redraw in a decade
The Edmonton Echo · Aug 10Transit operating grants get a new formula, and the cities do the math
The Edmonton Echo · Aug 10Montney permits climb as two operators add rigs near Wembley
Grande Prairie Gazette · Aug 10
Also filed today
Early harvest across the southwest, and the first yield reports beat the gloom
Aug 10
The Mariners sign a homegrown keeper out of the Burnaby academy
The Pacific Post
The valley's next decade will be decided by what it builds now
Kelowna Current
Minor hockey's ice bill rises eight per cent, and the leagues redraw the map
The Edmonton Echo
The PNE's last summer on the old Hastings Park midway
The Pacific Post
Aurora season opens, and the county's dark-sky pullouts draw their first full night
Grande Prairie Gazette
A new era of water planning is arriving in the Interior
Kelowna Current
Kitimat's second LNG train clears environmental review
Kermode Chronicle
Manitoba's flood maps are twenty years old, and this is the year that shows
Aug 10
Canola comes off two weeks early, and the elevators adjust on the fly
Grande Prairie Gazette
A hundred seats on 118 Avenue: the Alberta Avenue playhouse books a full season
The Edmonton Echo
Churchill loads its first grain of the season three weeks early
Aug 10