Murray Wood: Why I hate the latest round of changes in the CFL
Eight of the CFL's nine teams will qualify for the playoffs under the league's latest round of changes, but Murray Wood ...
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Internal report urged Canada to counter rhetoric about a 'crisis' at border
OTTAWA - An internal government report warned a year ago that allowing "the trend of negative rhetoric" about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, ad...
Feb 16, 2025 A new Black Hawk helicopter from the RCMP to be used in border patrol is unveiled in St-Antoine-Abbe, Que. on Thursday, Jan.30, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
Justin Trudeau, Prince Harry take in final day of Invictus Games in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Talk of war and politics mixed with sport at the closing ceremony in Vancouver of the 2025 Invictus Games where hundreds of wounded or sick service personnel competed for their country. Pr...
Feb 16, 2025
Canadian LGBTQ+ advocacy group won't visit UN forum over concerns about U.S. border
OTTAWA - Canada's leading LGBTQ+ advocacy organization is boycotting travel to the U.S. - and won't attend an upcoming United Nations event - in response to concerns about how their members might be t...
Feb 16, 2025
Little change expected in January inflation as GST break tamps down spending totals
OTTAWA - Economists expect little movement in Canada's inflation numbers, if any, when January data is released this week, though the underlying change in prices will be clouded by a full month of the...
Feb 16, 2025
'Energizer Bonnie' Crombie won't back down from a fight, friends and loved ones say
TORONTO - Bonnie Crombie recently celebrated a milestone birthday - the kind that usually prompts a big party, or at the very least a special gathering with family and close friends - but instead she ...
Feb 16, 2025
A look at Ontario Liberal Party Leader Bonnie Crombie
TORONTO - Bonnie Crombie has been the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party since late 2023. Born: Feb. 5, 1960. Early years: Crombie grew up as an only child in a rooming house in Toronto's west end wi...
Feb 16, 2025
Liberals hope Crombie's name can flip Mississauga seats. It may be an uphill battle
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie jogs up to a door on a recent Saturday morning canvass in Mississauga, where she is warmly greeted in Polish by a woman who expresses her support and ...
Feb 16, 2025
B.C. health authorities confirm new measles case in the Lower Mainland
VANCOUVER - Health authorities in British Columbia say a new case of the measles has been confirmed in the Lower Mainland in a resident who travelled to Southeast Asia. A joint statement from Fraser H...
Feb 15, 2025
Europeans can learn from Canada's dealings with Trump: Joly
Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada's plan to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to slap Canadian goods with across-the-board tariffs has drawn the att...
Feb 15, 2025 Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly discusses Canada-United States relations during a luncheon with the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal in Montreal on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
Alberta premier responds to cabinet member's request to move health minister
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she asked all of her ministers for their recommendations after a report surfaced that one of them called for the health minister be moved to a different ...
Feb 15, 2025
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Murray Wood: The Art of the CUSMA Deal
Insults, complaints that Canada is so mean, warnings the U.S. doesn't need us. It's all standard operating procedure. Th...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 29
8:30 - The spring fiscal update released yesterday includes new measures such as a major skilled trades training program...