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Expert report calls on Ottawa to fund essential medicines, enshrine pharmacare in law
OTTAWA - Canada should create a pharmacare system that offers free access to essential medicines to anyone with a health card and allows private insurance to continue playing a role, an expert committ...
Nov 21, 2025
Carney wraps United Arab Emirates visit with pledge of $70B investment in Canada
ABU DHABI - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working on a $1-billion project aimed at expanding critical minerals processing capacity in Canada, while securing the equivalent of $70 billion i...
Nov 21, 2025
FAA gives $10K bonuses only to controllers and technicians with perfect attendance during shutdown
Only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses while nearly 20,000 other workers will be left out, the Federal ...
Nov 20, 2025
B.C. government 'dashes' out digital tool to help build homes faster
VICTORIA - British Columbia is launching a free, new digital tool aimed at helping developers and non-profit organizations design and build prefabricated homes faster and more cost-efficiently. Housin...
Nov 20, 2025
Alberta premier distances herself from $109M DynaLife lab testing debacle
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is distancing herself from a multimillion-dollar lab testing debacle involving the former private provider DynaLife. Smith, speaking in the legislature Thursd...
Nov 20, 2025
Conservatives plan to try and amend asylum system rules in border security bill
OTTAWA - Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner said Thursday she plans to try and "amend the heck" out of the government's border security bill, Bill C-12, with a host of measures tar...
Nov 20, 2025
Alberta tables bill to limit oversight power of regulatory bodies on member behaviour
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government plans to limit what behaviour professional regulators can police in the interest of strengthening freedom of expression. A bill introduced in the...
Nov 20, 2025
'Downtowns can evolve': Calgary announces more downtown office space conversions
CALGARY - Calgary's mayor says the conversion of vacant downtown office buildings has reached its mid-term goal. City council introduced a downtown incentive plan nearly five years ago when the office...
Nov 20, 2025
N.B. premier says new deal with physicians will lead to improved primary care access
FREDERICTON - The premier of New Brunswick says her government is set to sign a new four-year agreement with the provincial medical society that will improve access to primary care. Members of the New...
Nov 20, 2025
Supreme Court of Canada to look at request for religious records through B.C. law
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case about applications for access to personal information held by Jehovah's Witnesses congregations. The congregations withheld information f...
Nov 20, 2025
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...