Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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Air traffic controllers say potential cuts at Nav Canada would put lives at risk
OTTAWA - Air traffic controllers say Nav Canada is mulling layoffs even if it receives a possible bailout from Ottawa, jeopardizing passenger safety. More cuts would axe critically needed workers and ...
Feb 22, 2021
Screen-shared vision: Biden-Trudeau meeting to feature common ground, old irritants
WASHINGTON - Call it the Screen-Shared Summit. Tuesday's bilateral meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden - a strictly virtual affair, thanks to COVID-19 - offers hope of a n...
Feb 22, 2021
Kenney says no new taxes as Alberta preps for another tough times pandemic budget
EDMONTON - On Thursday it's budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year's projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days. ...
Feb 21, 2021
Federal workers paid $819 million to stay home during the pandemic under '699' clause
OTTAWA - More than one in three federal public servants were granted paid time off work during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, at a cost exceeding $800 million, according to a Treasury...
Feb 20, 2021
Liberals move to add weeks to EI, COVID-19 benefits for workers and parents
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals sought Friday to get ahead of a looming benefits panic, announcing plans to add extra weeks of income support for unemployed workers and parents at home with children bec...
Feb 19, 2021
Government to deduct taxes from Phoenix damages payments, civil service union says
OTTAWA - The country's biggest civil service union says the federal government plans to issue payments of up to $2,500 to its members next month - minus taxes - even though a dispute over the tax stat...
Feb 18, 2021
US jobless claims rise to 861,000 as layoffs stay high
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid rose last week to 861,000, evidence that layoffs remain painfully high despite a steady drop in the number of confirmed viral infecti...
Feb 18, 2021
Labour groups ask Liberals to extend pandemic benefits as workers set to max out aid
OTTAWA - It has been 11 months since Christine Ilott lost her job in live theatre when the pandemic forced closures in the entertainment industry. The Toronto-area woman has unsuccessfully hunted for ...
Feb 18, 2021
Nurses, contact tracers responding to Olymel pork plant outbreak in Alberta
RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta Health Services says it is responding directly to a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected hundreds at a hog slaughterhouse where almost two-thirds of workers have at least one ...
Feb 16, 2021
Vaccine delays leave grocery workers feeling expendable
As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic's front-line workers. A year later...
Feb 16, 2021
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...