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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Consumers could find 'meaningful savings' as carbon price ends: Desjardins
OTTAWA - Canadians can expect to feel the absence of the consumer carbon price at the pumps immediately but it may take longer to notice a difference in the price of other goods, a new report released...
Mar 19, 2025
Saskatchewan to post $12M budget surplus amid tariff headwinds
REGINA - Saskatchewan's government says it will ride a strong economy to a projected razor-thin surplus in next year's budget, but turbulent headwinds of tariffs could ultimately blow a billion-dollar...
Mar 19, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney set to host meeting with Canada's premiers Friday
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting a meeting with Canada's premiers on Friday. The Prime Minister's Office and the office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed details of the meeting. Aud...
Mar 18, 2025
B.C. geoduck clam exports facing devastation from Chinese tariffs on massive molluscs
VANCOUVER - Diversification has become a mantra for Canadian exporters in the new age of tariffs, but for harvesters of British Columbia's geoduck clams, that's a high hurdle, said BC Seafood Alliance...
Mar 18, 2025
'First thing out of the gate': Saskatchewan budget to address tariffs from two fronts
REGINA - Saskatchewan's finance minister says more details are coming Wednesday as the province introduces a 2025 budget facing a vise-squeeze from both China and the United States. "The first thing o...
Mar 18, 2025
Ford says energy surcharge remains on table but he won't 'antagonize' U.S. in talks
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is keeping the possibility of reintroducing a surcharge on electricity exported to the United States in his back pocket, but says for now he doesn't want to "antago...
Mar 18, 2025
Here's a list of February inflation rates for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely bec...
Mar 18, 2025
Here's a list of February inflation rates for Canadian provinces
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 1.2 per c...
Mar 18, 2025
February inflation data set to show end of federal tax holiday
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release inflation figures for February today. Most economists expect inflation picked up as the federal government's temporary tax break on a number of household s...
Mar 18, 2025
New Brunswick budget forecasts $599-million deficit as Trump tariff threat looms
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government tabled a $14.3-billion budget Tuesday that has been driven deep into deficit by a promised increase in health-care funding and a contingency fund to deal wit...
Mar 18, 2025
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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...