Murray Wood: Federal gun initiatives take aim at small business
Darryl Schemenauer is closing down his Regina gun store after 35 years, and he puts the blame squarely on the federal Li...
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Alberta hires former Manitoba chief judge to investigate health spending scandal
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has hired a former head of Manitoba's provincial court to investigate allegations of high-level arm-twisting in lucrative government contracts. The government said Mo...
Mar 03, 2025
Alberta Premier Smith faces second challenge from caucus member in less than a week
EDMONTON - For the second time in under a week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing pushback from within her own United Conservative caucus. This time it's over her proposed 2025 budget. Backbenc...
Mar 03, 2025
CRTC delays implementation of next-generation 911 service for two years
OTTAWA - Next-generation 911 service - which would allow Canadians to send texts or video to summon help - won't be implemented for another two years. The CRTC had set Tuesday as the deadline for tran...
Mar 03, 2025 SaskTel is still experiencing a widespread outage affecting all cellular voice services, as well as around 3,000 business voice customers. (CJME files)
Nurses, midwives can help treat depression during pregnancy and new motherhood: study
TORONTO - Nurses, midwives and doulas can treat depression and anxiety symptoms experienced during pregnancy and after delivery, a new study says. The clinical trial, published Monday in the journal N...
Mar 03, 2025
Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life
Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near the...
Mar 02, 2025
Province spent more promoting cost-savings than advertising vaccines, documents show
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has spent or budgeted more than $340,000 for advertising campaigns promoting its fuel tax and electricity savings - more than it spent last year on ads to persuade p...
Mar 02, 2025
Alberta to announce third-party reviewer to probe health contracts next week: Smith
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says an external reviewer is to be announced next week, as her government continues to face questions surrounding allegations of corruption in health-care con...
Feb 28, 2025
N.S. Tories criticized for removing online data about people seeking family doctor
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservative government is facing criticism after it took down an online dashboard that provided detailed information about the number of people waiting for a famil...
Feb 28, 2025
One in a million: Sask. mom reflects on her fight with rare cancer
WARMAN, SASK. - JJ Zimmer is like many other mothers across the province. She spends her days shuttling her two daughters between activities, juggling work as a teacher, managing household chores, and...
Feb 28, 2025
'Not a priority': Critics say Alberta falls short on health-care, education spending
EDMONTON - Critics say the Alberta government's proposed health-care and education spending in its new budget won't address long-standing problems in either sector. "Public education, once again, with...
Feb 28, 2025
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Sarah Mills: The season of the zipper merge has returned
It sometimes feels like leaders in our cities and towns don't plan for construction very well, but Sarah Mills says the ...
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The Evan Bray Show - Monday, April 20
8:30 - Last week, the FSIN held its first general assembly since being told it needed to repay $29-million in federal fu...