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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Trump chooses Bessent to be treasury secretary, Vought as budget chief, Chavez-DeRemer for Labor
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he'll nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary. Trump ...
Nov 22, 2024
Trump chooses former Soros money manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he'll nominate former George Soros money manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury se...
Nov 22, 2024
Alberta Premier Smith says passenger train system key to meeting tourism goals
CALGARY - Premier Danielle Smith says a robust passenger train system in Alberta will be key to meeting her government's goal of a $25-billion tourism economy. Smith, speaking at a forum in Calgary, s...
Nov 22, 2024
Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge...
Nov 22, 2024
Ship strikes kill thousands of whales. A study of hot spots could map out solutions
A study of hot spots for collisions between ships and whales around the world, including Canadian waters, offers a map for measures to prevent the deadly strikes that could drive some species to extin...
Nov 22, 2024
Extreme weather remains the wild card as Alberta aims to fix auto insurance system
CALGARY - As Alberta prepares to make sweeping changes to fix its flailing auto insurance system, experts say extreme weather remains the wild card. Nadja Dreff, senior vice-president and sector lead ...
Nov 22, 2024
New Brunswick oysters test positive for dermo disease, first confirmed case in Canada
FREDERICTON - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says oyster samples from New Brunswick's east coast have tested positive for two diseases, one of which has been found for the first time in Canada. A...
Nov 22, 2024
Uncertainty hangs over COP29 as tense climate finance negotiations down to the wire
Tense negotiations over how much wealthy countries will pledge to their counterparts in the fight to limit global warming have overrun their Friday deadline, a holdup Canada's environment minister att...
Nov 22, 2024
Canada Post reports $315M Q3 loss, compared with $290M loss a year earlier
OTTAWA - Canada Post says it lost $315 million before tax in the third quarter compared with a loss before tax of $290 million a year earlier. The corporation says revenue growth in its direct marketi...
Nov 22, 2024
'Emotional time' for B.C. poultry farmers who have to cull thousands of birds
Mark Siemens is a third-generation egg farmer in B.C.'s Fraser Valley and he recalls his grandfather sharing a story about fighting an unknown disease that raced through the farm decades ago, forcing ...
Nov 22, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Tiger Woods should know better after another DUI case
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 2
On today's show, Evan asks whether you really relax when you have time off, the economic impact of the industrial carbon...