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It’s said to be the most Asian city outside Asia. Where a quarter of residents speak a Chinese language and the
char siu rivals what’s served in Hong Kong barbecue shops. Where a Sikh gurdwara, a Tibetan monastery and a Chinese evangelical church coexist in harmony along a three-kilometre stretch of road dubbed the Highway to Heaven. The kind of place that should be immune to a rise in pandemic-fuelled racism.
Vancouver has been anything but.
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By Sandrine Rastello (Bloomberg) Canada is planning legislation to end a general strike at the Port of Montreal that’s bound to worsen congestion at other sites and add to global shipping delays.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government said Sunday it would introduce a bill to force dock workers to return to their posts, calling it the least favorite option. A general strike at eastern Canada’s biggest port started on Monday, escalating from a partial walkout previously in effect and affecting most terminals.
“We’re here to encourage negotiations, but we can’t accept massive economic damages for Quebeckers or Canadians,” Trudeau said in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.’s French-language TV channel on Sunday. Some companies are seeking alternatives at U.S. ports “because Montreal is not reliable, from their perspective.”
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Canada’s Justin Trudeau has a border problem. Like his counterpart in the White House, he’s being pummelled by his political opponents for it. Canada’s land border with the U.S., the world’s longest, has been shut to many foreign travellers for more than 13 months. Non-essential workers entering the country are required to quarantine for two weeks. The rules have blocked tourists, kept families apart, prevented students from visiting college campuses and hurt trade-dependent manufacturers.
But new variants of COVID-19 still arrive and a third wave has raged across parts of Canada. Trudeau finds himself squeezed between two groups. On one side are critics including doctors and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec, who say loopholes in its travel rules and weak controls at airports have made the situation worse. On the other are businesses calling for the prime minister to loosen restrictions, or at least outline a plan for doing so.
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(Bloomberg) The pandemic, with its broken supply lines and closed borders, has been a worrying reminder of Quebec’s dependence on imported food. Roughly 75% of its fresh fruits and vegetables, in fact, come from elsewhere.
Inside a windowless metal cube in a building on the outskirts of the province’s largest city, Montreal, Yves Daoust is trying to make a dent in those numbers.
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The cube houses some 3,800 strawberry plants arranged in vertical gardens, pollinated by bumble bees and brushed by morning dew. The carefully controlled environment is tracked by sensors and attempts to mimic ideal summer conditions year-round in a city where the average outdoor temperature in January is 13.6 degrees Fahrenheit (-10.2 degrees Celsius) and the winter cold doesn’t let up until May.