Murray Wood: Going to seed, in a good way
Murray Wood says seed sales are taking off this spring. Food prices are likely convincing some to grow their own vegetab...
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Food costs are spiralling. These Canadians are turning to food banks for help
TORONTO - Sticker shock hit hard when single mom Kristina Kennedy saw the sausages she usually buys were $1.50 more than expected. As the sole caregiver to four children, the 40-year-old says price hi...
Oct 27, 2025 Leisa Muthra, who uses food banks, is seen in Toronto in an undated handout photo. Both Food Banks Canada and Daily Bread released reports Monday morning that reveal a deepening reliance on food banks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Leisa Muthra
Ford says he won't apologize for anti-tariff ads that scuttled trade talks with U.S.
OTTAWA - After Ontario's anti-tariff TV ad blitz scuttled trade talks, Premier Doug Ford vowed Monday he will "never apologize" for pushing back against hostile trade measures designed to poach jobs f...
Oct 27, 2025
Montreal's mayoral election is about affordability and the homeless -- and bike lanes
MONTREAL - In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor compari...
Oct 27, 2025
Made in Saskatchewan: Great Western Brewing expands to double production
Saskatoon's Great Western Brewing is raising a glass to nearly a century of beer-making history, and to the workers who kept it alive. Beer has been brewed on the company's 2nd Avenue site since 1927,...
Oct 26, 2025 Carling O’Keefe Brewery became Great Western Brewing Company, preserving large-scale beer production in Saskatchewan. (Great Western Brewing website)
Alberta's latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past
CALGARY - Few are as acquainted with Canada's graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals. "You can see the ...
Oct 26, 2025
Carney tells ASEAN summit Canada respects trade rules, as Trump threatens new tariffs
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Mark Carney took a veiled shot at the Trump administration's trade policy on Sunday, highlighting Canada's reliability and steadiness without naming the United States or ...
Oct 26, 2025
Trump announces additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over Ontario ad
U.S. President Donald Trump announced an additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada on Saturday because the Ontario government didn't immediately pull down an anti-tariff ad it was running in U.S. market...
Oct 25, 2025
Trump threatens Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the prov...
Oct 25, 2025
Has business in Canada tuned out Trump's temper tantrums?
by Christopher Reynolds MONTREAL - Like exhausted parents, Canada's business community seems to be increasingly tuning out the temper tantrums coming from downstairs. On Thursday, U.S. President Donal...
Oct 25, 2025 President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Alex Brandon)
Trump ending trade talks unlikely to affect Canadian market, analyst says
A local business analyst says U.S. President Donald Trump's recent comments on ending trade talks with Canada aren't likely to cause a major impact on the Canadian market. On Friday morning, Trump pos...
Oct 25, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media that he was ending trade talks with Canada in response to an ad campaign by the Government of Ontario that aired on U.S. networks. It featured former President Ronald Reagan discussing tariffs. (AP file photo)
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Sarah Mills: We are feeling the pinch of rising prices, even beyond the gas pumps
Costs have already gone up with airlines. Parcel and delivery services could also increase, and even ride sharing may ja...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, April 14
On Tuesday's show, Evan talks about the Prime Minister's transition from minority to majority government, explores a pro...