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Updated Aug 10 ago

DevelopingPoliticsTwo hours on curbside parking, and council finally says what downtown is forThe Edmonton Echo · Aug 10

NewsInterior wildfire smoke pushes Metro Vancouver to its worst August air rating since 2023The Pacific Post · Aug 10

NewsTunnelling ends on the Broadway subway, three months ahead of scheduleThe Pacific Post · Aug 10

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

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

British Columbia

NewsTunnelling ends on the Broadway subway, three months ahead of scheduleThe Pacific Post · Aug 10

Business & MarketsCanola contracts move early as growers watch a dry JuneThe Prairie Dispatch · Aug 10

EnergyPotash on the water: what a reopened Baltic route means for Saskatchewan's minesWestern Wire staff · Aug 10

Early harvest across the southwest, and the first yield reports beat the gloom

Western Wire staff · Aug 10

Manitoba

Business & MarketsChurchill loads its first grain of the season three weeks earlyWestern Wire staff · Aug 10

Manitoba's flood maps are twenty years old, and this is the year that shows

Western Wire staff · 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