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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Union files complaints as feds increase public servants' in-office time
OTTAWA - Canada's largest federal public sector union has filed several unfair labour practice complaints - and another union is warning of a possible strike - as the government moves to increase publ...
Feb 06, 2026
Public servants ordered to work in-office 4 days a week starting in July
OTTAWA - The federal government is ordering public servants to be in the office at least four days a week starting this summer, with executives expected to return to the office full time in May. A Tre...
Feb 05, 2026
N.S. pilot program cuts down payment requirements for first-time homebuyers
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government says it's the first province in Canada to slash the minimum down payment buyers are required to save in order to purchase their first home. Housing Minister John W...
Feb 03, 2026
Minister says Build Canada Homes wants to get banks, pension funds involved in affordable housing
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister says he wants to ramp up the lagging pace of home building in some provinces by bringing developers off the sidelines and into Ottawa's affordable housing project...
Feb 01, 2026 Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Gregor Robertson speaks with media before appearing at the House of Commons transport committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
B.C.-based Pattison says Virginia warehouse sale to ICE won't proceed
VANCOUVER - Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments announced Friday it will no longer be selling a Virginia warehouse property to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had said it wanted ...
Jan 30, 2026
Canadian companies criticized over ties to U.S. immigration enforcement
OTTAWA - Canadian companies are coming under fire over their ties to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as U.S. President Donald Trump pursues a mass deportation campaign to expel vast numbers o...
Jan 28, 2026
Federal money for Arctic projects should go to the territories: N.W.T. premier
OTTAWA - Federal money meant for Arctic projects and programs should go to the territories, Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson said on Wednesday. Simpson made the remarks while taking question...
Jan 28, 2026
Pattison firm says it did not know warehouse was intended to become ICE facility
The property arm of Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Group says it did not know that a Virginia warehouse it owns was intended as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility at the time it...
Jan 28, 2026
Robertson calls on provinces to boost funding for transitional housing
OTTAWA - The federal housing minister says he wants to see the provinces step up their support to get people off the street and into long-term homes. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Gregor Ro...
Jan 28, 2026
Creditors accept ex-Montreal mayor Denis Coderre's debt-repayment plan
MONTREAL - Creditors of former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre have unanimously accepted a proposal for him to pay back less than a quarter of his roughly $1.1-million debt. During a virtual meeting Mond...
Jan 26, 2026
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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...