Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
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US productivity growth unrevised at 5.4% rate in Q1
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. productivity growth was unrevised at a 5.4% rate in the first three months of the year, though recent increases in labor costs accelerated. The first quarter gain in productivit...
Jun 03, 2021
Michigan responds on Line 5: 'This case is a state-law action through and through'
WASHINGTON - The dispute over the cross-border Line 5 pipeline is entirely for Michigan to deal with, the state's attorney general argues in a legal brief released Wednesday that flatly rejects Canada...
Jun 02, 2021
Canadians growing 'impatient' on border, Garneau says as businesses push to reopen
WASHINGTON - Tiny cracks of daylight are beginning to appear in the barriers that have kept people from casually crossing the Canada-U.S. border for the last 13 months - but they mostly seem to be on ...
Jun 02, 2021
US manufacturing activity grows for the 12th straight month
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - Growth in U.S. manufacturing picked up in May, even as supply chain problems persist and businesses continue to struggle to find workers. The Institute for Supply Management,...
Jun 01, 2021
Survey show only 20 per cent of workers want to return to office full-time post-COVID
Canadians are in no rush to head back to the office even as COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline across the country, a new survey suggests. A recent poll by Leger and the Association for Cana...
May 30, 2021
P.E.I. senator looks to amend budget bill to deal with issue of EI zones on island
OTTAWA - A senator from Prince Edward Island is pushing for a change to the government's sweeping budget bill that she says would entrench an unfair situation on the island that the Trudeau Liberals h...
May 29, 2021
US consumers boosted spending in April as inflation surged
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans increased their spending by 0.5% in April, a slowdown after a massive gain in March that had been powered by the distribution of billions of dollars in individual stimulus ...
May 28, 2021
CRA estimates 30,000 self-employed people may not have to repay CERB
OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says thousands of self-employed workers who received emergency benefits last year won't have to repay any of it, as long as they meet certain conditions.For anyone w...
May 27, 2021
Rising interest rates could dampen stimulus impact from federal budget, PBO says
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is pouring cold water on the economic fires from the government's latest spending plan, saying that an expected rise in interest rates should temper the amoun...
May 27, 2021
US jobless claims fall to 406,000, a new pandemic low
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to 406,000, a new pandemic low and more evidence that the job market is strengthening as the virus wanes and e...
May 27, 2021
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Murray Wood: Signs of spring appearing in Saskatchewan
Murray Wood says signs of spring were all over the place on the weekend, even though the forecast remains wintery for th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...