Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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B.C. launching review of post-secondary education in wake of declining stability
VICTORIA - British Columbia's public post-secondary institutions have seen a 70 per cent decline in international students, requiring the province to launch a review in a bid to stabilize the sector, ...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec begins consultations on potential revision of greenhouse gas targets
MONTRAL - Quebec is beginning consultations at the provincial legislature on whether to revise its greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The province committed to reducing its annual emissions by ...
Nov 25, 2025
Judge says Amazon needed 100 lawyers to assess 2.25M documents in competition probe
OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired "at least 100 lawyers" to go through more than two million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation i...
Nov 25, 2025
Beekeepers call for import ban on non-North American bees as deadly mite spreads
OTTAWA - Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that's spreading in parts of Asia, and a Conservative MP is calling on the federal government to change a long-standing policy on impor...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec economic update: modest financial relief to households, lower deficit
QUBEC - Quebec's finance minister presented an economic update on Tuesday that offered modest savings to taxpayers, as he painted an optimistic picture of the province's finances heading into an elect...
Nov 25, 2025
Hodgson says Ottawa is close to providing clarity on B.C. tanker ban
OTTAWA - Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said on Monday the government is getting close to being able to provide clarity on whether Ottawa would repeal the West Coast oil tanker ban....
Nov 25, 2025 Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Saskatchewan government says budget on course to record $427M deficit at year's end
REGINA - This year's Saskatchewan budget is sinking deeper into the red, mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer's wildfires and higher health-care expenses. Finance Minister Jim Reiter, in a mi...
Nov 25, 2025
Meta pitching app store age verification law to Liberal government
OTTAWA - Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level - which would place the burden on companies like Apple and Google, not individ...
Nov 25, 2025
Canadian farmers to lobby federal government to cap profits of major grocers
HALIFAX - Canadian farmers plan to lobby the federal government to implement a guaranteed annual income and a cap on the profits of the major grocery store chains in the country. The lobbying plans we...
Nov 25, 2025
B.C. woman sentenced to 18 months in jail for money laundering in "milestone" case
Securing a guilty plea in a British Columbia money laundering case that dates back to 2019 involved undercover officers and multiple search warrants, and organized crime investigators say they hope an...
Nov 24, 2025
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...