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If Canada can survive four years of Trump, it can navigate the new Buy American: PM
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - If Canada was able to navigate Donald Trump's four years of bilateral bluster, it can surely find safe harbour from the protectionist measures of his Democratic successor, Prime...
Jan 26, 2021
Work begins on Trans-Canada Highway near Swift Current
Construction was to begin Monday on two overpasses on the Trans-Canada Highway near Swift Current. Regina-based Graham Construction was to start the $18-million project, which involves work on two ove...
Jan 25, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
U.S. president signs executive order instituting stringent new Buy American regimen
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden imposed stringent new made-in-America rules for U.S. government spending Monday, adding a caveat likely troubling to Canada: exceptions to those rules will be allowed ...
Jan 25, 2021
Sask. home builder predicts drop in lumber prices this spring
A Saskatchewan home builder is predicting some relief from high lumber prices in time for the spring building season. “(By) late March, early April we expect a drop as much of 30 per cent in the...
Jan 11, 2021
'No government contracts' for companies that don't manufacture in U.S., Biden vows
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Now that he's the president-elect, Joe Biden is doubling down on his promise that economic recovery efforts in the United States will remain a made-in-America endeavour. Biden...
Nov 16, 2020
First-of-its-kind intersection in P.E.I. requires 11 instructional videos to explain
CHARLOTTETOWN - The P.E.I. government has produced no less than 11 online videos to show drivers how to navigate a new intersection in Charlottetown, described as the first of its kind in Canada. The ...
Nov 06, 2020
Protection against cruel punishment doesn't apply to corporations: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - Only people, not corporations, benefit from the charter protection against cruel or unusual punishment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The unanimous decision came Thursday in a case i...
Nov 05, 2020
Civil, respectful but still tough: Canada-U.S. trade under a Biden presidency
OTTAWA - Canada coped with nearly four years of Donald Trump rewriting or shredding the international trade rule book. But Canadian hope of a rosy return to rules-based bonhomie with its top trading p...
Oct 27, 2020
Wood prices to drop, but will remain high into 2021, says homebuilder
A Saskatchewan home-building company is predicting a reprieve from high wood prices by Christmas after COVID-19 caused a construction wood shortage across the country. "(The price) is quite high, but ...
Oct 14, 2020
Advocates call for change in housing fund after data shows skew to Ontario
VANCOUVER - A federal government fund providing financing for affordable housing projects needs to be rebuilt because it doesn't do enough to help provinces outside of Ontario, advocates say. Th...
Oct 09, 2020
OPINION
Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, April 10
8:30 - After another conservative MP crossed the floor to the Liberals earlier this week, we wanted to get thoughts from...