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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Dive-bombed or not, Vancouverites are still pro-crow, researchers say
VANCOUVER - Along her journey towards understanding Vancouver's crows, psychology professor Suzanne MacDonald says she made a friend. It's a crow that brings her gifts after she set up a bird feeder a...
May 30, 2025
Ontario MPPs to get raises after 16-year freeze; bill to establish new pension plan
TORONTO - Ontario members of provincial parliament are getting big raises and access to a pension plan, under legislation introduced by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy and passed with the support ...
May 29, 2025
Canada Post puts forward ‘final offers’ to union, posts $1.3B loss for 2024
MONTREAL - Canada Post said it notched nearly $1.3 billion in operating losses last year as the beleaguered institution laid out its "final offers" to the union representing 55,000 workers after negot...
May 28, 2025
Canada Post, union set to return to bargaining table as OT ban continues
Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 of its workers are set to head back to the bargaining table this week as an overtime ban remains in effect. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the ...
May 27, 2025
Canada Post says response to latest union comments coming shortly
OTTAWA - Canada Post says it will respond to its union's latest negotiation comments as soon as possible as uncertainty caused by the contract dispute weighs heavily on its business. The Crown corpora...
May 26, 2025
Canada Post, union expected to resume talks in a few days as overtime ban continues
OTTAWA - Talks between Canada Post and negotiators from its union are expected to resume over the next few days, its union said Sunday after the two parties met amid warnings of mail delivery delays t...
May 25, 2025
Alberta finance minister pushes back ahead of negotiation talks resuming
EDMONTON - Alberta's finance minister says a lack of progress in negotiations with the union representing government workers could result in a strike or lockout. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employ...
May 23, 2025
Ongoing strike threat could push more customers away from a struggling Canada Post
MONTREAL - Canada Post customers may face delays as 55,000 workers swear off overtime shifts, though a much bigger disruption was averted after the union backed down from a strike threat. However, exp...
May 23, 2025 A Canada Post employee returns to a delivery depot in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Ottawa has to allow home prices to fall to make housing more affordable, experts say
OTTAWA - Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability. Gregor Robertson, the form...
May 23, 2025 Housing experts say home prices indeed need to fall before broad-based affordability returns to Canada. New single family houses billed as estate cottages and townhouses under construction are seen in an aerial view, in Delta, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Ontario adding 2,600 teacher candidate spaces amid shortage
TORONTO - Ontario is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it stares down a worsening teacher shortage, a move unions say is welcome though will not in isolation solve the pr...
May 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
Evan catches up on the latest happening in Ottawa, checks in on safety in downtown Saskatoon and discusses a three-strik...