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Premier Smith says Albertans' desire for leaving Canada has never been higher
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the public desire in her province to quit Canada has never been higher. Smith says a recent byelection that saw a separatist candidate garner almost 18 pe...
Jun 26, 2025 United Conservative Party leader Danielle Smith addresses party members at their annual meeting in Red Deer, Alta., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Police intelligence behind B.C. call for Bishnoi gang's terror listing: minister
British Columbia's public safety minister said police intelligence had linked many cases of extortion against the South Asian community to India's Lawrence Bishnoi gang, giving the government confiden...
Jun 26, 2025
Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why it alarms its critics
OTTAWA - Parliament has passed controversial major projects legislation that Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada needs to shore up its economy in the face of a trade war with the United States. Bil...
Jun 26, 2025
Nova Scotia ministers silent on environmental racism report, to meet with authors
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia government ministers say they will meet with a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, although they remain tight-lipped on the panel's findings, which ...
Jun 26, 2025
Controversial legislation to fast-track major projects, Bill C-5, becomes law
OTTAWA - The Liberal government's controversial major projects bill became law Thursday - legislation Indigenous leaders have warned could lead to widespread protests and legal challenges if Ottawa do...
Jun 26, 2025
Construction to protect Chignecto Isthmus from floods 'several years' away: minister
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's minister of public works says it will be "several years" until construction begins to protect a low-lying strip of land that links the province to New Brunswick. Fred Tilley to...
Jun 26, 2025
B.C. tribunal dismisses damage claim against man who shared ex's nudes with employer
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal has dismissed a claim from a woman who sought $5,000 in damages from her ex-partner for showing sexual images of her to her employer. The decis...
Jun 26, 2025
Federal bank loaning $1B for BC Ferries to buy Chinese-made ships
VICTORIA - A federal Crown corporation is loaning BC Ferries $1 billion to help buy four Chinese-made ferries, a purchase that federal transport minister Chrystia Freeland recently said was dismaying ...
Jun 26, 2025 The BC Ferries vessel Island Nagalis, an island-class ferry used to service Quadra Island, arrives in Campbell River, B.C., Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Alberta company at the centre of allegations on health contracts urges audit release
EDMONTON - An Alberta company swept up in allegations of government corruption says it's being further harmed by the suppression of a report it believes could clear the name of its CEO. Medical supply...
Jun 26, 2025
Brazeau recovering after collapsing in Senate Wednesday due to 'dizzy spell'
OTTAWA - Sen. Patrick Brazeau is recovering after a "dizzy spell" made him "briefly lose consciousness" during debate in the Senate on the government's major projects bill, a Senate spokesman said Thu...
Jun 26, 2025
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Sarah Mills: Ego over policy will always cause regret for politicians
Sarah Mills says the knives are our for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is choosing himself over his party, unl...
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, May 15
8:30 - Avi Lewis, the newly elected federal NDP leader, is touring Saskatchewan this week with 11 stops over five days, ...