Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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Year-end financial returns show New Brunswick Liberals beat Tories in donations
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberals ended 2023 with a bigger war chest than the Progressive Conservatives, with a provincial election months away. Year-end reports filed this week by the parties to...
Jul 12, 2024
Court to hear Saskatchewan's case to stop collection of carbon levy money
VANCOUVER - Federal Court in Vancouver is to hear a case today from the Saskatchewan government asking for an injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting millions in carbon levy money...
Jul 12, 2024
Jewish advocates say details around investigation into human-rights chief murky
OTTAWA - Three weeks after the federal Liberals promised to do a "formal, independent review" of the appointment of Canada's new human-rights commissioner, the government hasn't provided any details a...
Jul 12, 2024
N.S. spent $1.2. million on controversial wine subsidy program from January to March
HALIFAX - After months of silence, the Nova Scotia government finally revealed the total figure spent on a wine subsidy program that caused many of the province's winemakers to feel sour. Finance Mini...
Jul 12, 2024
Payouts for the many over the few: employee ownership trusts take shape in Canada
Three times a year, the 600-or-so employees of Friesens Corp. gather in front of the printing house to accept envelopes, each one holding a cheque for the workers' share of company profits. They all g...
Jul 12, 2024
Trump lawyers press judge to overturn hush money conviction after Supreme Court immunity ruling
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump's lawyers are urging the judge in his New York hush money case to overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presiden...
Jul 11, 2024
Mark Carney would be 'outstanding' addition to federal politics, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Mark Carney would be an "outstanding addition" to federal politics, the prime minister said Thursday, in response to speculation that he is trying to recruit the former Bank of Canada governo...
Jul 11, 2024
Canada Revenue Agency order to seize Sask. money unusual: experts
REGINA - Legal experts say the federal government has taken an extraordinary step in trying to take $28 million from Saskatchewan's bank account for not paying carbon levy money, a case that is to be ...
Jul 11, 2024
New York's top court allows 'equal rights' amendment to appear on November ballot
A proposed amendment to New York's constitution to bar discrimination over "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" will appear on the ballot this November, the state's high court ruled Thursday. Th...
Jul 11, 2024
A timeline of events in the Ontario Science Centre closure
TORONTO - Ontario infrastructure officials released more information Thursday about structural and mechanical issues facing the Ontario Science Centre, as well as a peer review of the original enginee...
Jul 11, 2024
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Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
Evan talks on Thursday's show about the RM of Sherwood's AI data centre now approved to be built, Saskatoon mayor Cynthi...