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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Business loans, tax cuts part of new Manitoba economic development plan
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is changing some business tax credits and offering a new loan program as part of its plan to boost economic development. Premier Wab Kinew says the government is con...
Sep 25, 2025
Canadian virus research hub in Saskatoon turns 50 amid concerns over U.S. funding
SASKATOON - One of Canada's premier vaccine centres celebrates its 50th birthday this week, but researchers say it comes amid unease over U.S. policy changes and funding cuts that threaten to upend th...
Sep 25, 2025 Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) researchers demonstrate work in a Containment Level 2 lab during a tour of the building on the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Sask. on Thursday, August 21, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards
Tariffs, government spending, gas prices — what's driving inflation right now?
OTTAWA - MPs returned to the House of Commons earlier this month to confront an old problem - inflation - which is now being driven by new forces. Many consumers are still reeling from the decades-hig...
Sep 25, 2025
NDP MP urges caution as Canada moves to mend trade relationship with China
OTTAWA - An NDP member of Parliament who has been a target of Chinese foreign interference says the federal government should be cautious as it tries to mend its trade relationship with Canada's secon...
Sep 24, 2025
Indonesian president signs trade deal, defence pact with Canada
OTTAWA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has signed a trade agreement and a defence agreement with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Parliament Hill, as Canada expands its ties with Southeast Asia. ...
Sep 24, 2025
Canada's mayors, councillors want fast-tracking of projects that fight climate change
MONTREAL - More than 250 elected officials across Canada have signed onto a campaign calling on the federal government to prioritize major infrastructure projects that help in the fight against climat...
Sep 24, 2025
Budget watchdog sounds alarm about Ottawa's 'unsustainable' fiscal path
OTTAWA - "Stupefying," "shocking" and "unsustainable" - those were just some of the words Ottawa's fiscal watchdog used Thursday to describe his scathing forecast for federal finances ahead of a long-...
Sep 24, 2025
Population growth in Q2 fell to slowest pace on record for quarter excluding pandemic
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's population grew at its slowest pace for a second quarter since comparable record keeping began in 1946, excluding 2020 when the pandemic hit. The agency s...
Sep 24, 2025
Finance minister Bailey says current plans to cut the deficit "won't bend the curve"
VICTORIA - B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says government's plan to find $1.5 billion in savings over three years won't be enough to "start bending the curve towards balance" as the province fore...
Sep 23, 2025
B.C. forestry sector in 'crisis,' triggering change in BC Timber Sales
British Columbia's forestry industry is "under pressure from all sides," prompting the provincial government to bring in changes to expand the role of BC Timber Sales, including allowing some communit...
Sep 23, 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
8:30 - There are no shortages of stories coming from Parliament Hill this week. Following the Liberal majority, the gas ...