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CP NewsAlert: Singer Corb Lund gets OK to launch anti-coal petition drive in Alberta
EDMONTON - Elections Alberta has approved a bid by country music singer Corb Lund to start collecting signatures for a petition to ask the province to pass a law banning new coal mining on the eastern...
Dec 08, 2025
Air Transat poised to start suspending flights as strike deadline looms
MONTREAL - Air Transat passengers face the prospect of flight suspensions this week as the leisure airline prepares to wind down operations ahead of a Wednesday strike deadline from pilots. Travel com...
Dec 08, 2025
OPP probing company that received Ontario government payments
TORONTO - The Ontario Provincial Police have launched an investigation into a company connected to the Skills Development Fund after the province found "irregularities" relating to payments it receive...
Dec 08, 2025
Quebec announces plan to cut environmental assessment times in half
MONTREAL - Quebec's will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete an environmental assessment by about half in order to speed up major projects such as mines and energy sector development, Envir...
Dec 08, 2025
PM says back-to-office plan for bureaucrats coming soon as MPs call for flexibility
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday his government's plan to get public servants to spend more time in the office will come into "sharper view" over the next several weeks. The issue came ...
Dec 08, 2025
Carney announces $400M joint fund with city of Ottawa for affordable housing
OTTAWA - The federal government is partnering with the city of Ottawa to put $400 million to help build up to 3,000 affordable homes in the capital, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday. The city wi...
Dec 08, 2025
Plan in works to save some jobs slated to be cut at Algoma Steel: union
SAULT STE. MARIE - Plans are in the works to save hundreds of the roughly 1,000 jobs slated to be lost at Algoma Steel Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Bill Slater, president of United Steelworkers loca...
Dec 08, 2025
B.C. First Nation meets with Alberta minister to oppose changing tanker ban
Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker r...
Dec 08, 2025
Dewdney reopening brings 'instant turnaround' for Rebellion Brewing
The CEO of Rebellion Brewing says the reopening of Dewdney Avenue delivered an immediate boost to business after two years of construction that kept customers, traffic and energy away from the Warehou...
Dec 08, 2025 “We definitely noticed more customers coming in, more people just on the streets,” Mark Heise said. “Other places along Dewdney looked busier, too. That was a real ‘up week’ for us, and we’ll take it.” (Jacob Bamhour/980 CJME)
Bank of Canada expected to hold key rate, move to sidelines after an uncertain 2025
OTTAWA - Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The...
Dec 08, 2025 Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, holds a press conference at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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