Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Higher costs should kill Trans Mountain pipeline, opposition says
OTTAWA - Opposition parties and environmental groups are urging the federal government to stop expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, citing a poll saying Canadians are alarmed by the project's cost. ...
Feb 19, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Alberta couple miss chocolates but ‘life is good’ on quarantined cruise ship
A husband and wife from central Alberta say they are "feeling quite happy and relaxed" quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the port city of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo. Loli...
Feb 11, 2020 Lolita and Hans Wiesner are shown on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in this recent handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Lolita and Hans Wiesner
Provincial tensions with federal government easing, Kenney, Moe suggest
WASHINGTON - Post-election tensions between the West and the federal Liberal government are showing signs of easing, two of Canada's premiers suggested Friday as a contingent of provincial leaders fan...
Feb 07, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor
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
Feds rankle provinces with spring timeline for stabilization fund changes
OTTAWA - A federal program that tops up provincial revenues in response to sudden economic downturns won't be getting any changes until at least this spring. Finance ministers in Alberta and Saskatche...
Jan 31, 2020 Finance Minister Bill Morneau. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Billboard pleas: Alberta man hopes sign will find him a kidney donor
CARBON, Alta. - The large billboard overlooking the town of Drumheller in east-central Alberta is hard to miss. Next to a photo of a smiling man in a blue shirt, his arms crossed, the sign reads: "Jim...
Jan 27, 2020 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Saskatoon man among 4 killed in Alberta crash
A 31-year-old Saskatoon man is among the dead after a crash between a pickup truck and van about 115 kilometres west of Medicine Hat. A Saskatoon man is among the people killed in a crash on Alberta&#...
Jan 10, 2020
Alberta fires back at UN committee for criticism of energy megaprojects
EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister says the United Nations is an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada's energy megaprojects. Sonya Savage, in a statement, says that ...
Jan 08, 2020 Alberta Minister of Energy Sonya Savage. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
RCMP say boy safe, father in custody after Amber Alert issued in Alberta
BRULE, Alta. - Alberta RCMP say a toddler has been found unharmed and his father is in custody after an Amber Alert was issued early Friday. The alert went out about 2:30 a.m. for the 14-month-old boy...
Dec 20, 2019
Indigenous opposition to pipeline shouldn’t outweigh others: Provinces
VANCOUVER - The governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan are urging the Federal Court of Appeal to defer to cabinet's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline because they say Indigenous opposition shou...
Dec 19, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
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On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...