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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Ottawa says it wants to improve income assistance program on First Nation reserves
The federal government says it is committed to working with Mi'kmaq First Nations in Nova Scotia to improve the income assistance program - though Ottawa has yet to provide details on the progress of ...
Jul 30, 2025
Organizations sound alarm as gender equality department faces 81% budget cut
OTTAWA - Organizations working to advancing gender equality are sounding the alarm as the federal department for women and gender equality, WAGE, faces a potential budget cut of just over 80 per cent....
Jul 30, 2025
Migrant worker calls proposed spike in housing cost payroll deduction 'wickedness'
OTTAWA - An Ontario migrant farm worker says there is "wickedness" in a federal government proposal that could allow employers to charge workers upwards of 30 per cent of their income for housing. The...
Jul 30, 2025 Migrant workers pick strawberries at a farm in Pont Rouge Que., on Aug. 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Statistics Canada to end most term, casual employment contracts by October
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada has announced it will end many term and casual employment contracts by October as it faces budget cuts. A note sent to employees Monday by Chief Statistician Andr Loranger c...
Jul 29, 2025
N.S. Mi'kmaq chiefs call on Ottawa to address income assistance disparity on reserves
Mi'kmaq leaders from Nova Scotia are calling on Ottawa to urgently address an income assistance disparity they say is keeping some families on reserve in deep poverty. Ta'n Etli-tpi'tmk, which represe...
Jul 29, 2025
Carney says trade talks in 'intense phase' after Trump scores win with European Union
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday that Canada's negotiations with the United States are in an "intense phase" after President Donald Trump achieved a critical agreement with the Euro...
Jul 28, 2025
Alberta immigrants say seeing an uptick in anger, rise of racist narratives
EDMONTON - Alberta resident Shamaila Akram says she can handle the increase in racial slurs and derogatory comments being thrown at her, but she worries about her newcomer and immigrant clients. As de...
Jul 26, 2025
Nurses group hopes premiers' new sense of unity will lead to labour mobility
OTTAWA - The Canadian Nurses Association says it hopes the new "united Team Canada" approach at the Council of the Federation will lead to harmonization of nurses' licences across the country. The ass...
Jul 25, 2025
Parliamentary interpreters sound alarm over coming changes to procurement rules
OTTAWA - Professional interpreters are warning that the federal government's plans to cut its procurement costs could compromise the public's access to parliamentary, Supreme Court and other official ...
Jul 24, 2025
Military Police Complaints Commission investigating botched shooter drill on CAF base
OTTAWA - The Military Police Complaints Commission will hold public hearings to investigate what happened during a botched active-shooter drill on a Canadian Forces base last fall that reportedly left...
Jul 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...