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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Gull-Masty signals go-slow approach to changing First Nations status eligibility
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says the Assembly of First Nations sent a strong signal to her government to end the second-generation cutoff in the Indian Act, but her governme...
Dec 08, 2025
N.S. RCMP says it was already tackling illegal cannabis before minister's directive
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP say they have no plans to change their approach to tackling illegal cannabis in the province, despite a new provincial government directive calling for a police crackdow...
Dec 08, 2025
Eby rejects a recall of the legislature, will amend, not repeal UN Indigenous Act
VICTORIA - Opposition politicians and a business group are urging the British Columbia government to recall the legislature in order to repeal the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples A...
Dec 08, 2025
PM says back-to-office plan for bureaucrats coming soon as MPs call for flexibility
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday his government's plan to get public servants to spend more time in the office will come into "sharper view" over the next several weeks. The issue came ...
Dec 08, 2025
Ottawa opening new express entry pathway for international doctors next year
OTTAWA - Canada will open a new express permanent residency program for international doctors next year, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Monday. She said the program will be open to physicians in ...
Dec 08, 2025
Carney announces $400M joint fund with city of Ottawa for affordable housing
OTTAWA - The federal government is partnering with the city of Ottawa to put $400 million to help build up to 3,000 affordable homes in the capital, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday. The city wi...
Dec 08, 2025
Plan in works to save some jobs slated to be cut at Algoma Steel: union
SAULT STE. MARIE - Plans are in the works to save hundreds of the roughly 1,000 jobs slated to be lost at Algoma Steel Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Bill Slater, president of United Steelworkers loca...
Dec 08, 2025
B.C. First Nation meets with Alberta minister to oppose changing tanker ban
Cameron Hill was six or seven years old in the 1970s when he and his father took to the water in a wooden skiff to help form a blockade to stop a ship of oil executives who were looking for a tanker r...
Dec 08, 2025
Canada Post commits to free postage for people who are blind as legislation changes
OTTAWA - Canada Post is vowing to maintain free-postage service for people who are blind even as Ottawa's budget bill looks to repeal those parts of the postal service's legislation. Bill C-15, the fe...
Dec 08, 2025
Canada turns to EU for agreements on AI as Montreal hosts G7 digital, tech ministers
OTTAWA - Canada's artificial intelligence minister kicked off two days of meetings among G7 ministers Monday touting new digital agreements with Europe - a move that comes at a time of deep divisions ...
Dec 08, 2025
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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
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...