Murray Wood: Big companies seem to be allergic to answering questions
Murray Wood says it's surprising that during a SaskTel outage last week, it was very difficult to get the Saskatchewan t...
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Canada jumps closer to military-spending target thanks to COVID-19's economic damage
OTTAWA - Canada has taken a big leap closer to meeting its promise to the NATO military alliance to spend a larger share of its economy on defence thanks to an unexpected assist from COVID-19. New NAT...
Oct 21, 2020
'Blacklisted:' Nova Scotia First Nation pulls commercial lobster boats from the water
HALIFAX - The chief of the First Nation behind a disputed moderate livelihood lobster fishery in Nova Scotia says recent vandalism and the loss of potential sales have cost the band more than $1.5 mil...
Oct 21, 2020
Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden eyes Obama boost
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the traje...
Oct 21, 2020
Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that...
Oct 21, 2020
StatCan says annual inflation rate rose 0.5% in September
OTTAWA - Canada's headline inflation measure went up in September by 0.5 per cent compared with a year ago, a better-than-expected increase, but one that experts say won't sway the Bank of Canada's st...
Oct 21, 2020
Think tank uses UN Security Council appearance to appeal for Canadian's release
The president of a prominent think tank used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday to appeal for the release of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for n...
Oct 21, 2020
Nigeria protesters break curfew amid gunfire, chaos in Lagos
LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigerian protesters demanding an end to police brutality defied a curfew and faced off with security forces Wednesday as gunfire rang out and fires burned in Lagos, a day after shots ...
Oct 21, 2020
Canada's bill to outlaw LGBTQ2 conversion therapy has global influence: UN expert
OTTAWA - A United Nations expert says proposed Canadian legislation that would ban forcing children or adults into therapy to alter their sexual orientation or gender identity could help further LGBTQ...
Oct 21, 2020
Liberal minority survives confidence vote in the Commons with NDP and Green backing
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's minority government survived its most serious confidence test yet Wednesday, but opposition resentment over the Liberals' high-stakes brinkmanship may make it more difficult ...
Oct 21, 2020
One crisis after another for Trudeau since last federal election one year ago
OTTAWA - One year ago today, Canadians elected to put Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals on a shorter leash, returning them to government but with only a minority of seats in the House of Common...
Oct 21, 2020
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8:30 - As we eagerly await the Premier's visit to China in hopes of striking a deal to remove canola tariffs, we're stil...