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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Lobbying watchdog seeks budget hike amid pandemic-induced surge in lobbying
OTTAWA - The federal lobbying watchdog is asking for a budget increase to enable her office to modernize the way it registers lobbyists and keeps track of their activities - just as it's seeing a...
Jun 11, 2020
Military spending needed more now than ever, top defence official says
OTTAWA - The Defence Department's top civilian official is touting the importance of continued investments in the Canadian Armed Forces, and says she has received no indications the Liberal government...
Jun 11, 2020
Virus pummels global economy, jobs - even without 2nd wave
PARIS - The virus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century -- and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of infections, an international economic report wa...
Jun 10, 2020
Extending CERB for months could double $60-billion budget, PBO report suggests
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog has put a price tag around talks to extend the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, estimating it could potentially double the current $60-billion budget. Under o...
Jun 10, 2020
Liberals vow to keep negotiating after opposition rejects COVID-19 aid bill
OTTAWA - The non-partisan spirit that has allowed Parliament to swiftly pass emergency legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic evaporated Wednesday, with opposition parties refusing to give unan...
Jun 10, 2020
Liberals hunting for support for bill reforming COVID-19 benefits
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals' push for changes to a key benefit for workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic hit political roadblocks as the New Democrats withdrew support for a draft bill that woul...
Jun 09, 2020
B.C., Ontario shipyards team up to seek multibillion-dollar icebreaker contract
OTTAWA - Canada's cutthroat shipbuilding industry saw a surprise alliance Tuesday as two competing yards announced plans to team up to win a multibillion-dollar contract to build a new polar iceb...
Jun 09, 2020
Cautious Canadians increasingly wearing masks, fear second wave of COVID: Poll
OTTAWA - Canadians are increasingly wearing protective face masks as they emerge from months of isolating at home to curb the spread of COVID-19, a new poll suggests. And it suggests that fear of a se...
Jun 09, 2020
New moms told go work to get EI parental benefits after jobs lost to COVID-19
OTTAWA - Alexis Adams is joyful about the arrival of her third daughter but she is also concerned about how to pay for another maternity leave that is, like her daughter, barely a week old. Adams lost...
Jun 08, 2020
Unemployment rate falls to 13.3%, US adds 2.5 million jobs
WASHINGTON - The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 13.3% in May from 14.7%, and 2.5 million jobs were added - a surprisingly positive reading in the midst of a recession that has paralyzed the economy in...
Jun 05, 2020
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