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Poilievre sticks with 'axe the tax,' adds policy details as election nears
OTTAWA - The Conservatives' favourite slogan - "axe the tax" - has been a rallying cry for the better part of three years as frustrated Canadians looked for relief from the rising cost of living. But ...
Feb 18, 2025
In the news today: StatCan to release January inflation figures today
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... StatCan to release January inflation figures today Statistics Canada is expected to release its January consum...
Feb 18, 2025
Three taken to hospital with critical injuries after plane crashes in Toronto
Three people with critical injuries have been taken to to hospital, including a young person, after a Delta Air Lines plane arriving from Minneapolis crashed on the runway at Toronto Pearson Airport o...
Feb 17, 2025 Pearson International Airport firefighters work on an upside down Delta Air Lines plane, which was heading from Minneapolis to Toronto when it crashed on the runway on Feb. 17, 2025, still image made from handout video footage published to social media. (THE CANADIAN PRESSHandout Minute Morning)
'Heartbreaking': Newborn bitten by pet dog in Alberta home dies in hospital
EDMONTON - A two-week-old boy who was bitten by a pet dog at a home west of Edmonton on the weekend has died in hospital, RCMP say. The newborn was airlifted to the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edm...
Feb 17, 2025
Federal government considers contract retaliation as Trump promises tariffs
OTTAWA - The federal government is looking closely at the business it does with American companies as it considers ways to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats. In an intervi...
Feb 17, 2025 Ginette Petitpas Taylor, pictured during question period on Nov. 21, 2024 in Ottawa, is Treasury Board President and a member of the government's committee on Canada-U.S. relations. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
Sask. dealing with long waits for breast health one year after plan announced
REGINA - Nearly a year into the Saskatchewan government's plan to improve breast health care, the province's largest health-care union says staffing shortages and long waits have not let up. Bashir Ja...
Feb 17, 2025 Bashir Jalloh, president of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 5430 in Regina, said the government is paying more to send patients to Calgary rather than have those services offered in Saskatchewan. (Submitted)
Three people facing 64 charges after bank robbery, ATM thefts in Sask.
A woman and two men are facing a combined total of 64 charges after Saskatchewan RCMP connected them to a Landis bank robbery in November 2024 and "a string of ATM thefts and attempted thefts." RCMP s...
Feb 17, 2025
Woman charged with drug trafficking after cocaine found in Swift Current
A 31-year-old Swift Current woman has been charged with drug trafficking after cocaine was seized in Swift Current last week. Saskatchewan RCMP said in a Feb. 17 news release that officers with the RC...
Feb 17, 2025 (Celine Grimard/650 CKOM))
Battlefords Citizens on Patrol group ready to help RCMP following carjacking
When a woman went missing on Feb. 14 in North Battleford following a carjacking, a group of volunteers was ready to help. The Battlefords Citizens on Patrol - also known as Citizens on Patrol program ...
Feb 17, 2025 Doug Fehr, board chair of the Saskatchewan Citizens on Patrol Association. and the Battlefords Citizens on Patrol group, speaks to the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. North Battleford Protective Services Chief Lindsay Holm is in the background. (Battlefords COP/Submitted)
Hunt continues for one man after triple stabbings on Big River First Nation
Saskatchewan RCMP are still looking for a suspect in three stabbings on Big River First Nation on Saturday. In a late afternoon update on Feb. 16, police said the first reported stabbing was around 3:...
Feb 16, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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