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New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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Laundering of fentanyl cash linked to online betting sites: Intelligence agency
OTTAWA - Canada's financial intelligence agency suspects online gambling platforms are being used to launder proceeds from fentanyl dealing and production. In an operational alert, the Financial Trans...
Jan 23, 2025
Canada's digital services tax, online regulation bills a likely Trump trade target
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has spent years touting its efforts to make tech giants pay. Now, those pieces of legislation could be a target of the Trump administration - particularly the digital s...
Jan 23, 2025
TikTok, Meta 'chaos' reminds Canadian businesses of the value of diversification
For Monika Scott and Robyn Mair, the last month has brought a whipsaw of emotions every time they log onto social media. Between a divest-or-ban government ultimatum that downed TikTok in the U.S. for...
Jan 23, 2025
Mount Polley boss says 2014 B.C. mine spill not toxic as firm faces fisheries charges
The president of the company involved in the Mount Polley environmental disaster that poured millions of cubic metres of mine tailings into B.C. waterways 10 years ago says the material spilled wasn't...
Jan 22, 2025
CFIA: inspectors might go to Italy to investigate salmonella outbreak
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it's possible that investigators will be sent to Italy to determine the source of a salmonella outbreak that's sickened at least 61 people in Canada. On Saturd...
Jan 22, 2025 Among the 61 cases reported, the majority were female and 17 people were hospitalized. The age range of those who became ill is between three and 88 years old. Salmonella can result in severe and potentially deadly infections, particularly for children, pregnant people, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. (HO/The Canadian Press)
Canada leaning toward matching tariffs on U.S. — but not all premiers agree
OTTAWA - Canada appears to be leaning toward hitting the United States with matching tariffs if President Donald Trump makes good on his threats, but not all of the country's premiers support that app...
Jan 22, 2025
Housing Minister Erskine-Smith calls on Ontario to do more for social housing
OTTAWA - Federal Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith is calling on the Ontario government to do more to address social housing needs in the province. At a press conference in Ottawa to announce a new ...
Jan 22, 2025
Centennial College suspends 49 programs as international student enrolment drops
TORONTO - One of Ontario's largest colleges is suspending dozens of programs in the latest round of cuts at post-secondary institutions as the federal government reduces the number of international st...
Jan 22, 2025
Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump 's administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on ...
Jan 21, 2025
Alberta funding for Jasper housing rebuild 'can't be spent' amid impasse: minister
Alberta's social services minister says $112 million earmarked for 250 new permanent homes in Jasper, Alta., is off the table if Parks Canada and the local government continue to pursue a different vi...
Jan 21, 2025
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...