Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Ottawa freezes merger notification threshold, funds housing innovation projects
Ottawa is freezing the threshold at which the Competition Bureau must be notified of a merger. The federal Liberal government is also providing $123 million to eight homebuilders it says are driving i...
Feb 27, 2024
Bill supporting development of nuclear energy powers to pass in Kentucky Senate
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to lay the foundation to attract nuclear energy projects to a state where coal has dominated and fueled the economy for generation...
Feb 26, 2024
Some bundled wireless plans not as cheap as before Rogers-Shaw merger: watchdog
Certain cellphone plans in Western Canada are not as cheap as they were prior to the Rogers-Shaw merger, Canada's competition watchdog says. Jeanne Pratt, the Competition Bureau's senior deputy commis...
Feb 26, 2024
N.B. municipality spent $19K to investigate councillor over giant bird statue
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick town councillor says the release of an investigation into her efforts to bring a giant bird sculpture to the community is a "victory" - even though it led to sanctions ag...
Feb 26, 2024
$454 million judgment against Trump is finalized, starting clock on appeal in civil fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) - The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalized in New York on Friday, making official a verdict that leaves the former president on the hook for more than $454 ...
Feb 23, 2024
Senators urge Biden to end duty-free treatment for packages valued at less than $800
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two U.S. senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action, saying U.S....
Feb 23, 2024
Alberta regulator accepts Rockies coal mine application, will call public hearing
Alberta's energy regulator has accepted initial applications and is to open public hearings for a controversial open-pit coal mine on the eastern slopes of the province's southern Rocky Mountains that...
Feb 23, 2024
Federal government posts $23.6B deficit for April-to-December period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $23.6 billion for the first nine months of its 2023-24 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $5.5 billion for the same stretc...
Feb 23, 2024
CFIB says 85% of small businesses oppose carbon tax as Ottawa rejigs rebates
Ottawa is changing the formula for allocating carbon tax revenues, directing more of the money away from small businesses and towards consumers. According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Bus...
Feb 22, 2024
Online fundraisers for violent West Bank settlers raised thousands, despite international sanctions
JERUSALEM (AP) - When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi for allegedly assaulting Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, his supporters ...
Feb 22, 2024
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...