Murray Wood: April is the most frustrating month on the prairies
As much of Saskatchewan deals with another spring snowstorm, Murray Wood says we're all asking the same question: This i...
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Jobs minister Kahlon says B.C. won't pan away from Trump threat to tariff films
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon says the government is taking threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to tariff B.C.-made films by 100 per cent "very seriously," but it's unclea...
Sep 29, 2025
Groups urge PM Carney to act on climate finance risk, 10 years after key speech
MONTREAL - A decade after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a famous speech about the financial risks associated with climate change, global organizations called for financial system reforms in an ...
Sep 29, 2025
New Brunswick ends fiscal year with $104.4-million deficit as health-care costs rise
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's finance minister says the province finished the 2024-25 fiscal year with a $104.4-million deficit, instead of the $40.9-million surplus they had budgeted for. Ren Legacy ...
Sep 29, 2025
Millions of dollars for Algoma Steel loan is a matter of sovereignty: Hajdu
OTTAWA - Algoma Steel Group Inc. is set to receive half a billion dollars in government loans to help it reorient its business away from the United States as the federal government argues supporting t...
Sep 29, 2025
Tariff support, focus on investment on business leaders' federal budget wish lists
Business leaders have a wide-ranging wish list for the upcoming federal budget in the hopes Prime Minister Mark Carney's government addresses everything from the country's investment environment to ta...
Sep 28, 2025
Carney says international meetings are 'necessary' to opening new markets
LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney said his recent international trips and meetings with world leaders are "necessary" to opening new markets for Canadian products. On a four-day trip to London, Carn...
Sep 26, 2025
Ontario ends 2024-25 with lower deficit than predicted, enacts agency hiring freeze
TORONTO - Ontario wrapped up the 2024-25 fiscal year with a significantly lower deficit than initially projected in the budget, yet the province will implement a modified hiring freeze in an effort to...
Sep 26, 2025
Carney's globe-spanning travel schedule draws both criticism and praise
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is back in London this week - his second visit to the British capital among 13 foreign visits since March - and his globe-trotting schedule is drawing both criticis...
Sep 26, 2025
Federal government posts $7.8B deficit for April-to-July period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $7.8 billion for the first four months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, the resul...
Sep 26, 2025
'Very unfair': Property taxes up 20 per cent in cash-strapped Ontario township
Tammy Daigle has spent more than half of her life in the rural, northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland, focusing on her family and rarely thinking about the small town's finances. But that ...
Sep 26, 2025
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Sarah Mills: A U.S. jury says Live Nation and Ticketmaster's monopoly hurt fans
An appeal is already underway, but Sarah Mills says the court case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster has exposed what...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 16
Evan catches up on the latest happening in Ottawa, checks in on safety in downtown Saskatoon and discusses a three-strik...