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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Grocery code of conduct could spur investment, innovation: advocates
Two of the grocery code of conduct's biggest advocates say they believe it could spark more investment and innovation by food manufacturers in Canada, hedging against shortages and price volatility in...
Aug 26, 2024
Canada to restrict low-wage foreign workers, consider lower immigration targets
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging businesses to hire Canadians as his government announces new restrictions to limit the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers in the country. Ott...
Aug 26, 2024
Canada to hit China with tariffs on electric vehicles, aluminum, steel
OTTAWA - The federal government is imposing tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles as well as aluminum and steel from China in an effort to protect domestic manufacturing. Prime Minister Justin Tru...
Aug 26, 2024
Immigration, housing to headline cabinet retreat in Halifax Monday
HALIFAX - Housing and immigration will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet retreat in Halifax moves into its first full day of meetings. The annual end-of-summer cabinet gathering is intend...
Aug 26, 2024
2 million bathtubs: Calgarians urged to conserve as new water restrictions kick in
CALGARY - A city official was conjuring images of bathtubs, swimming pools and jugs to drive home just how much water Calgarians need to save every day as they endure yet another round of rationing wh...
Aug 26, 2024
CN, CPKC to resume railway service Monday as work stoppage ends
OTTAWA - Traffic at Canada's two largest railways is slated to resume today as a rail work stoppage comes to an end following a Saturday decision from the federal labour board. Canadian National Railw...
Aug 26, 2024
Companies take stock of rail shutdown's hit to economy - and bottom lines
MONTREAL - The economic fallout of the country's rail shutdown is set to come into focus this week as shippers and producers take stock of cargo delays and financial losses. A work stoppage that began...
Aug 25, 2024 Train cars are seen on the tracks in an aerial view at Canadian National Rail's Thornton Yard as the Port Mann Bridge spans the Fraser River, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, August 22, 2024. The economic fallout of the country's rail shutdown is set to come into focus this week, as shippers and producers take stock of delays and losses. (Darryl Dyck/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Feds identify 56 government properties for conversion to affordable housing
HALIFAX - The federal government has added 56 properties to a new public lands bank of locations that are suitable for long-term leases so developers can build housing, a move the Housing Minister say...
Aug 25, 2024
Labour board orders rail workers back on the job, as Teamsters vow to appeal
The federal labour board has ordered thousands of rail employees back to work after a bitter contract dispute shut down the country's two major railways. The decision from the Canada Industrial Relati...
Aug 24, 2024 (Canadian Press)
Tugboats free grounded cargo ship blocking traffic in St. Lawrence Seaway
MONTREAL - A stuck 138-metre cargo ship that had been blocking traffic in the St. Lawrence Seaway near Montreal has been freed. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says two tugboats successfully towed the Dut...
Aug 24, 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...