Murray Wood: Federal gun initiatives take aim at small business
Darryl Schemenauer is closing down his Regina gun store after 35 years, and he puts the blame squarely on the federal Li...
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The Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 has hit 25 days
The Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 workers has hit 25 days. In a statement Sunday, Canada Post says it is awaiting a formal response from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to the pro...
Dec 09, 2024
BoC expected to lower interest rates again, with odds leaning toward larger cut
OTTAWA - Financial markets and forecasters are betting on another jumbo interest rate cut from the Bank of Canada on Wednesday, which would bring its key rate down to 3.25 per cent. Statistics Canada'...
Dec 09, 2024
Will he or won't he? Signs that Ford may call an early Ontario election stack up
TORONTO - Inside Ontario's legislature, the halls are decked, the sounds of children's choirs singing Christmas carols waft down the corridors, and in the air there's a feeling of an election. Staff a...
Dec 09, 2024
‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year
The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election rattled the country and sent shockwaves across the world - or were cause for celebration, depending on who you ask. Is it any surprise then that the ...
Dec 08, 2024
Ottawa is set to spend more than $1 billion on growing N.B.'s clean electricity grid
DIEPPE, N.B. - Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa will spend more than $1 billion on growing New Brunswick's clean electricity grid. The federal minister told a media event in ...
Dec 08, 2024
Border control and tariffs: Quebec Premier François Legault meets Trump in Paris
Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he met U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in Paris and they discussed border control and a proposed tariff on Canadian goods. Legault posted a photo on social media ...
Dec 08, 2024
Updated advisory urges Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria, leave if possible
Ottawa is urging Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria and to consider leaving the country if it's safe to do so. An updated travel advisory is warning people to avoid the Middle Eastern country due ...
Dec 08, 2024 Ottawa is urging Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria and to consider leaving the country if it's safe to do so. Opposition fighters celebrate as they burn down a military court in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Hussein Malla)
In once tranquil N.S. town, intimidation in the lobster industry now all too common
METEGHAN, N.S. - Standing by a bullet hole in his dining room wall, lobster buyer Geoffrey Jobert says such attacks have become an all-too-familiar reality in Nova Scotia's largest fishery. Overnight ...
Dec 08, 2024
MP Jamil Jivani meets U.S. vice president-elect amid Trump's tariff threats
WASHINGTON - A Conservative member of Parliament met with Donald Trump's second-in-command over the weekend as Canada prepares for the U.S. president-elect's return to the White House next month amid ...
Dec 07, 2024
Not just for your parents: Facebook's buy-and-sell platform drawing back millennials
HALIFAX - A historic 400-kilogram anchor that was dragged up from the ocean floor off Cape St. Mary's in Newfoundland sits propped up against a tree in front of Tyler Stapleton's house. The two-metre-...
Dec 07, 2024
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Sarah Mills: The season of the zipper merge has returned
It sometimes feels like leaders in our cities and towns don't plan for construction very well, but Sarah Mills says the ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, April 20
On Monday's show, Evan hears concerns about the FSIN's transparency after its general assembly last week, discusses how ...