canada

• Politics

Maryland Gov. Hogan urges ratification of U.S. trade deal with Canada, Mexico

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is urging the state’s members of Congress to approve a proposed trade agreement between America, Mexico and Canada.

By Pamela Wood

Jul 8, 2019

• Sports

Schmuck stops: On exporting NFL preseason games, Le'Veon Bell's female problem and why the Orioles aren't tanking

Peter Schmuck's "News Item" column on a variety of subjects including an NFL preseason game in Canada, Le'Veon Bell's female problem and a Warriors prediction.

By Peter Schmuck

Jun 7, 2019

• News

Group visiting Baltimore on business lost computers, bags when driver was carjacked

A group in Baltimore on business from Canada lost its van in a morning carjacking in Park Heights last week, according to police.

By Kevin Rector

May 24, 2019

• From the Community:

Barry Finlay fiction and non-fiction author releases his gripping new book titled Never So Alone

Barry Finlay is a fiction and non-fiction author. In his previous life, he had an extensive career in financial management before retiring in 2004, after thirty two years with the Canadian federal government. Since retiring, he has divided his time between writing, working as a consultant on financial policy matters, travel, playing golf, climbing mountains, philanthropy and enjoying his three grandchildren. In 2009, Barry got off the couch and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with his son, Chris. The experience of climbing Africa's highest mountain at age 60 with one of his sons, and discovering the satisfaction of reaching a goal and ...

• From the Community:

Massive Therapeutics is the Real Cost-Efficient Contender in the Caribbean, While Indoor Cannabis Growers in North America Lose Their Competitive Edge.

You wouldn't grow bananas indoors in New York or Toronto, would you?" - Bruce Caven - CEO of Massive Therapeutics The US cannabis market is booming, climbing to a value of $125 billion as of 2018 , and is anticipated to top $146.4 billion by the end of 2025 . With such big bucks at stake, it's little wonder why so many multibillion-dollar cannabis groups are setting up businesses across Canada and the Northern States. But all isn't quite as it seems. There are many pertinent questions to be asked. Why is ...

• Business

Six takeaways from McCormick's 2019 shareholders' meeting

Six takeaways from McCormick & Co.'s annual shareholders meeting, including corporate growth, new products and Generation Z.

By Colin Campbell

Mar 27, 2019

• Sports

Baltimore mayor blasts Pimlico owners, who say they want to move Preakness to Laurel

In a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan and legislative leaders, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said The Stronach Group would be happy to leave Pimlico Race Course as nothing more than a "fenced-in vacant lot." She blasted the track's owners after they urged construction of a "super track" at Laurel Park.

By Luke Broadwater

Feb 20, 2019

• Maryland

Harford Del. Szeliga reintroduces bill to allow parishioners to carry guns

A local delegate has introduced the Parishioner Protection Act of 2019, allowing parishioners to carry firearms in houses of worship to help protect their congregations from a mass shooting. The same bill did not make it past a committee hearing last year.

By David Anderson

Feb 12, 2019

• Opinion

Trump presidency doesn't look so good

If you take a look at President Donald J. Trump's time in office so far he hasn't achieved much.

• Opinion

Canada GM plant to close despite bailout

Canada bailed out General Motors like the United States and will also also see one of its plants close.

• Business

GM set to cease production at White Marsh plant, will slash 14,000 jobs in North America

A source said the plant being shuttered in Canada is just the beginning as GM prepares for the next downturn, shifting trade agreements and potential tariffs on imports.

By Doug Donovan

Nov 26, 2018

• Sports

A nearly historic day for McFarland falls 8 yards short of record, two points short of upset in OT loss to No. 10 Ohio State

Maryland redshirt freshman Anthony McFarland Jr. rushed for 298 yards and two touchdowns — 8 yards short of tying LaMont Jordan's school record, in a 52-51 overtime loss to No. 10 Ohio State.

By Don Markus

Nov 17, 2018

• Politics

National companies moving to take over Maryland marijuana businesses, despite state law

A Massachusetts company that trades on the Canadian stock exchange has offered $30 million to a Frederick firm to expand its presence beyond its current Baltimore County store in a deal that challenges a regulation prohibiting such consolidation.

By Doug Donovan

Nov 17, 2018

• Sports

Maryland loses Hill and Johnson to injuries, comeback falls short in 34-32 loss to Indiana

After taking an early 6-0 lead, Maryland's defense fell apart and the offense lost both starting quarterback Kasim Hill and Ty Johnson to injuries in a 34-32 defeat to Indiana.

By Don Markus

Nov 10, 2018

• Sports

Back home in Indiana, Maryland football coach Matt Canada focused more on present than past

Maryland interim coach Matt Canada, who started his coaching career as an undergraduate at Indiana and later served on two different staffs in Bloomingtonm, returns Saturday hoping to help the Terps gain bowl eligibility.

By Don Markus

Nov 9, 2018

• Sports

Speedy Javon Leake leads offensive outburst in Maryland's 63-33 rout of Illinois

Javon Leake became the first Maryland football player since DJ Adams in 2010 to score four touchdowns in a game as the Terps beat I.

By Don Markus

Oct 27, 2018

• Commentary

Zirpoli: Getting away with murder

It appears that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and legal resident of the United States, has been murdered in a plan likely developed and carried out by the Saudi Arabia government inside their Istanbul consulate. Why is Trump afraid to criticize Saudi Arabia?

• Sports

With improved defense, Maryland football winning the turnover battle in Big Ten

With five interceptions in Saturday's 34-7 win over Rutgers, Maryland increased its lead as the best Big Ten's leader in turnover margin.

By Don Markus

Oct 16, 2018

• Sports

Maryland football notes: With another big game, running back Ty Johnson moves into select company

Maryland senior running back Ty Johnson joined a select group of players who have rushed for over 2,000 yards and gained over 4,000 in all-purpose yards for the Terps.

By Don Markus

Oct 13, 2018

• Sports

A happy homecoming for Maryland: Terps bounce back to rout Rutgers, 34-7

Behind a career-high three touchdown passes by redshirt freshman quarterback Kasim Hill and four interceptions, Maryland crushes Rutgers, 34-7, on homecoming.

By Don Markus

Oct 13, 2018

• News

End of an era: 50-year-old whooping crane breeding program coming to a close at Maryland's Patuxent refuge

The era of the whooping crane at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel is ending. The Trump administration cut the 50-year-old crane breeding program's $1.5 million budget, and by the end of the year, the birds' squawks will no longer be heard at the Patuxent Research Refuge.

By Scott Dance

Oct 12, 2018

• Sports

Family feud erupts within Stronach Group, owner of Pimlico, Laurel racetracks

Frank Stronach, founder of the company that owns Pimlico Race Course, has sued his daughter Belinda, who had taken the reins of the business in recent years. Frank is trying to wrest control from Belinda, who is expected in Baltimore in 10 days for the Maryland Million at Laurel.

By Jean Marbella

Oct 10, 2018

• Opinion

Baltimore company had big role in NAFTA passage

he success in renegotiating NAFTA offers a useful opportunity to look back over 25 years to its first passage and its impact on one Baltimore company, Ellicott Dredges, which in 1993 unwittingly became the national poster child for NAFTA.

• Sports

Maryland football routed on road by No. 15 Michigan, 42-21, for first Big Ten loss

Maryland was unable to get going offensively until it was too late in losing its first game out of the bye, at No. 15 Michigan.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: A victory on trade

President Trump's USMCA trade deal is a clear win for America, says Cal Thomas.

• Sports

Going from No. 1 football recruit to bust at Auburn, Cowart looks to get back his 'swagger' at Maryland

Once labelled the biggest 5-star bust in college football while playing at Auburn, defensive end Byron Cowart is off to a solid start with Maryland this season.

By Don Markus

Oct 5, 2018

• Sports

Five things to look for from Maryland football after its bye week

From the injuries to safeties Darnell Savage Jr. and Antwaine Richardson to the way Maryland interim coach Matt Canada will rotate his running backs, here are 5 things to look for from the Terps coming out of their bye week.

By Don Markus

Sep 29, 2018

• Commentary

Kennedy: Sojourn to the Great White North

The hockey adventure has begun. I've taken quite a round-about route to get this far, but now, (it's Thursday as I write this) we're in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

• Sports

In first game since Jordan McNair's death, Maryland upsets No. 23 Texas again, 34-29 in season opener

Freshman wide receiver Jeshaun Jones scored on a 28-yard run, caught a 65-yard TD pass from Kasim Hill and threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Taivon Jacobs in the first half to help Maryland to 24-7 lead, but Terps saw lead chopped to 24-22 by halftime.

By Don Markus

Sep 1, 2018

• Opinion

Just don't call it NAFTA — the sole focus of Trump's trade negotiations, in a nutshell

Donald Trump's purported "biggest trade deal ever" is — shocker — more about marketing than making fairer trade rules for the U.S.

• College Sports

Digest (Aug. 22): Former Navy football player Jesse Iwuji scheduledto race in NASCAR Truck Series

Former Naval Academy athlete Lt. Jesse Iwuji is scheduled to make his debut in a NASCAR national series start during this weekend's Camping World Truck Series

• Maryland

The 55th annual Havre de Grace Art Show closes Sunday with good music, good art and good people

Visitors to the 55th annual Havre de Grace Art Show reported loving the music, art vendors, the people they met, even the picturesque setting in Tydings Park overlooking the Chesapeake Bay.

By David Anderson

Aug 20, 2018

• Sports

In first comments as Maryland's interim football coach, Matt Canada stresses priority is player safety

In his first media availability since being named Maryland's interim head coach, Matt Canada said he is still the offensive coordinator and still an assistant coach despite head coach DJ Durkin being placed on administrative leave Saturday.

By Don Markus

Aug 15, 2018

• Business

Trump tariffs mean uncertainty for booming Port of Baltimore

The Port of Baltimore is off to a booming start this year, but its business could be deeply affected if President Donald Trump's tariffs lead to an escalating trade war.

By Michael Dresser

Aug 15, 2018

• Features

This Day in History: July 27

In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.

• Opinion

Look at Canada, not UK, for single-payer example

Single-payer lowers costs, covers more and lets you choose your doctor - but that's not how the British system works.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Is Europe awakening to the threat?

Europe is awakening to a threatening Muslim invasion, while Canada and the U.S. are in denial, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Trump Doctrine is getting a noisy rollout

Jonah Goldberg: The Trump Doctrine, in short, is simply the international relations analogue to the domestic version of Trumpism. The Big Man personifies the national will, and constraints on the national will are for suckers.

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: NATO is strong (in its dislike for Trump)

President Trump's various claims about NATO proved questionable, at best, but the final one - that the alliance is stronger than ever - is awfully hard to believe.

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Trump's art of the no-deal

Robert Reich: For a supposed "deal maker," Donald Trump hasn't made any that have stuck thus far.

• Politics

Savoring the sweet taste of patriotism at Fourth of July parades around Baltimore

Parades across the Baltimore region celebrated the Fourth of July and included politicians including Ben Jealous, U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin and Gov. Larry Hogan's wife, Yumi.

• Opinion

Trump primed to blame Trudeau if North Korea nuclear talks fail

Why lash out at Justin Trudeau? Trump and his circle need a 'fall guy' for Singapore.

• Opinion

The truth about trade

Trump's rants on trade are misleading, and his protectionist policies seem destined to make matters worse.

• Opinion

Let's stick up for Canada

It's time for Americans to recognize our special relationship with Canada and not let Donald Trump drive a wedge between the countries.

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: Oh, Canada!

President Trump says Canadians burned the White House and generations of Fort McHenry volunteers quietly wept.

• Opinion

Safe consumption sites save lives

In the last decade, deaths from opioids have quadrupled in Maryland, yet the state's legislature this year killed bills that could have saved lives.

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: Lie to a Canadian — they're too nice to get angry about it

What do you call it when you Trump-splain trade deficits to PM Trudeau and then brag that you had no idea what you were talking about? No, seriously, what do you call it? We've run out of words.

• Business

Trump announces stiff trade tariffs, unswayed by warnings

WASHINGTON — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on

• Opinion

Trump tariffs won't bring back steel mills

President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs won't bring back domestic jobs in those industries but will cost them in countless others.

• Maryland

Throwing curling into the limelight in Laurel

Potomac Curling Club is based at Gardens Ice House in Laurel. Story about curling and its growing popularity around the Olympics.