Murray Wood: Elbows down, taxpayer subsidies for U.S. flights up
Murray Wood wonders why it's OK for Saskatchewan to prop up air travel to the U.S. with taxpayer dollars, but it was wro...
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Federal government posts $7.8B deficit for April-to-July period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $7.8 billion for the first four months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, the resul...
Sep 26, 2025
Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is lifting a ban on the sale of gas-powered cars that would have taken effect in 2035. Environment Minister Bernard Drainville says the decision will give industry a b...
Sep 26, 2025
What the Canada Post strike means for your passports, pension cheques and more
OTTAWA - With Canada Post workers hitting picket lines, the flow of mail across the country has stopped. Here's what the move means for items you may have been expecting in your mailbox. Mail delivery...
Sep 26, 2025
Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
OTTAWA - Canada was not part of a mass walkout Friday morning during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly. The office of Canadian Ambassador Bob R...
Sep 26, 2025
City clears encampment from Toronto park after residents demanded permanent housing
TORONTO - A homeless encampment in Toronto's west end was cleared by the city Friday morning after a small group of remaining residents said they wouldn't leave until they got permanent housing. City ...
Sep 26, 2025
Unionized postal workers on strike after plans to end most home delivery announced
OTTAWA - Unionized postal workers are on a nationwide strike this morning, after Canada Post announced it was planning to end door-to-door mail delivery for almost all households within the next decad...
Sep 26, 2025 Canada Post vehicles are seen at a facility in Ottawa, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
'Very unfair': Property taxes up 20 per cent in cash-strapped Ontario township
Tammy Daigle has spent more than half of her life in the rural, northern Ontario community of Fauquier-Strickland, focusing on her family and rarely thinking about the small town's finances. But that ...
Sep 26, 2025
Ottawa says Chinese EV tariff review is 'informal,' with no specific deadline
OTTAWA - The federal government says it is reviewing its decision to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs - but it can't or won't say when the review began, or when it will end. The tariffs took...
Sep 26, 2025
Carney looks to strengthen trade, security ties in U.K. visit
LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney is urging "like-minded" countries to work together in the face of the economic and geopolitical "rupture" driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff agenda. Car...
Sep 26, 2025
Ex-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert slams Netanyahu for framing Carney as enemy of Israel
OTTAWA - Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says Canadians should oppose Israel's government - not Israelis themselves - and blasts his successor for treating Prime Minister Mark Carney as "an ...
Sep 26, 2025
OPINION
Sarah Mills: We need more 'regular guys' in the civic process
Standing in front of CEOs, lobbyists, advocates and others at a council meeting is not an exciting prospect, but Sarah M...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 30
Evan finds out what to do if you find space junk on your farm, analyzes the outrage over Ticketmaster prices and the fut...