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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What is the notwithstanding clause? An explainer on the rarely used provision
The Alberta government on Monday invoked the notwithstanding clause in legislation ordering 51,000 striking teachers back to work. Premier Danielle Smith said it was needed because of the size of the ...
Oct 28, 2025
Alberta government passes bill to use notwithstanding clause to end teacher strike
Premier Danielle Smith's caucus worked into the wee hours of Tuesday morning to curtail debate and speedily pass a bill using the Charter's notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 striking teachers bac...
Oct 28, 2025 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is seen in the chamber after the throne speech, in Edmonton, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken
Alberta teachers won't engage in work-to-rule as classes resume: union
EDMONTON - The head of Alberta's teachers union says they will abide by a back-to-work order and will not engage in illegal actions such as work-to-rule. Jason Schilling says work-to-rule would lead t...
Oct 28, 2025
Alberta government passes bill to use notwithstanding clause to end teacher strike
EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's caucus worked into the wee hours of Tuesday morning to curtail debate and speedily pass a bill using the Charter's notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 striking t...
Oct 27, 2025
Ontario trustee who education minister sought to fire resigns, tied to Italy art trip
TORONTO - An Ontario school trustee who the province's education minister sought to fire through legislation has now resigned. Mark Watson was one of four trustees with the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Cat...
Oct 24, 2025
Regina Public Schools CEO cautiously optimistic about Building Schools Faster Act
The head of Regina Public Schools said he's "cautiously optimistic" about the newly announced Building Schools Faster Act. It was announced during Wednesday's speech from the throne, and requires muni...
Oct 23, 2025 Mark Haarmann, director and CEO of Regina Public Schools, said that an act like this might sped up the long-awaited construction of the Harbour Landing West elementary school. (Abby Zieverink/980 CJME)
Recall petition issued for Alberta's education minister, 16,000 signatures needed
CALGARY - A Calgarian has been given the green light to start collecting signatures to potentially put Alberta's education minister out of a job. Alberta's chief electoral officer approved a recall pe...
Oct 23, 2025
Yukon opposition parties unveil campaign platforms with less than two weeks to vote
Yukon's opposition parties unveiled their campaign platforms with the territorial New Democrats pledging millions in new programming if they're elected next month, while the Yukon Party is promising a...
Oct 23, 2025
Alberta premier says back-to-work bill for striking teachers coming Monday
EDMONTON - Thousands of teachers and supporters jeered, chanted and dumped protest potatoes at the door of the Alberta legislature Thursday as Premier Danielle Smith set a Monday deadline to solve a p...
Oct 23, 2025
Alberta students face stress, uncertainty as legislation looms to end teachers strike
EDMONTON - As legislation looms ordering striking Alberta teachers back to work, Jennifer Black is bittersweet about returning to class to teach English to dozens of anxious Grade 12 students while fe...
Oct 23, 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...