Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Most Canadian households to get more in rebates than paid in carbon tax: PBO
OTTAWA - A new analysis by Parliament's budget watchdog has found that most households in provinces where the federal carbon tax applies will receive more money back in rebates than they will pay thro...
Feb 04, 2020
Canadians in Wuhan to be flown out Thursday: government letter
A chartered plane that's to airlift Canadians from the epicentre of a virus outbreak in China was on its way overseas Tuesday, while its prospective passengers were told to be ready to leave on Thursd...
Feb 04, 2020 Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
APAS calls on Ottawa for carbon tax exemption
Agricultural producers in Saskatchewan are predicting the federal carbon tax will cause a 12 per cent hit on their incomes by 2022, according to a media release from their lobby group. "Federal Minist...
Feb 04, 2020
Report tells Health Canada to rethink funding in opioids fight
OTTAWA - How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain "a lack of progress" on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alternative Health Canada is considerin...
Feb 04, 2020 (The Canadian Press)
Moe uses SUMA keynote speech to preview provincial budget
Taking to the podium as the keynote speaker for the annual Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) convention on Monday, Premier Scott Moe announced that municipal revenue-sharing is set ...
Feb 04, 2020 (Twitter file photo)
1st US patient with new virus leaves hospital, is recovering
SEATTLE (AP) - The man who became the first U.S. patient infected with the new virus from China has left the hospital and said in a statement that he is getting better and looking forward to life retu...
Feb 04, 2020 In this photo taken Jan. 23, 2020, Robin Addison, a nurse in the Emergency Department and co-lead of the Biocontainment Evaluation and Specialty Treatment Team at Providence Regional Medical Center, poses for a photo with a protective helmet and face shield in Everett, Wash. Addison was part of the team that treated the first U.S. patient infected with the new virus from China, who was admitted to the facility on Jan. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
In embarrassing twist, Democrats have no Iowa caucus results
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Democratic party officials in Iowa worked furiously Tuesday to deliver the delayed results of their first-in-the-nation caucus, as frustrated presidential candidates claimed mo...
Feb 04, 2020 Caucus goers check in at a caucus at Roosevelt High School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
National NDP leader shows support at union rally, calls out Co-op for 'corporate greed'
The barricade at the Co-op refinery's Gate 7 got some national political power on Monday with a visit and speech from federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Singh spent time shaking hands and taking pictur...
Feb 03, 2020 NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh visited the picket line at the Co-op refinery on Feb. 3, 2020. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME).
American charged with child pornography at Sask.-N.D. border
An American man is facing child pornography charges after he tried crossing the Saskatchewan-North Dakota border with it on Friday. According to the RCMP, it all started when Canada Border Services Ag...
Feb 03, 2020
Canadians returning from Wuhan to be quarantined in motel at CFB Trenton
OTTAWA - Canadians returning from the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak will remain in isolation - including from each other - and still need significant support after they arrive, federal H...
Feb 03, 2020 Minister of Health Patty Hajdu. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Sarah Mills: Canada can learn lessons from Ireland
The Republic of Ireland has begun the painful process of reconciling its past. Sarah Mills says the country is going thr...
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