Murray Wood: With just a bit more attention to detail, Kinsmen Park could be pretty perfect
There were people in Kinsmen Park paid to be working the other morning, so Murray Wood wonders why the litter wasn't pic...
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Large number of Canadian public servants breaking remote work rules
OTTAWA - Large numbers of public servants working in the federal government's three biggest departments aren't following Ottawa's three-days-per-week office work rule, federal data shows. The federal ...
Feb 28, 2025
'Not a priority': Critics say Alberta falls short on health-care, education spending
EDMONTON - Critics say the Alberta government's proposed health-care and education spending in its new budget won't address long-standing problems in either sector. "Public education, once again, with...
Feb 28, 2025
Canada could be barred from a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, expert says
OTTAWA - Canada may have difficulty taking part in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine after a future ceasefire because it has clearly taken a side in the conflict, an international affairs expert sugge...
Feb 28, 2025
Here's how the PCs' win in Ontario's snap vote stacks up against elections past
The Progressive Conservatives have won a third consecutive majority government in Thursday's snap vote - a feat accomplished for the first time in more than 50 years of Ontario elections. The last tim...
Feb 27, 2025
A look at re-elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford
Doug Ford, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, has secured a third majority mandate after calling a snap election four weeks ago. Born: Nov. 20, 1964. Early years: Ford was born a...
Feb 27, 2025
Here's the latest on the Ontario provincial election
The Progressive Conservatives will form a third consecutive majority government in Ontario after a snap winter election. Here are the latest developments. All times eastern. --- 11:15 p.m. The early e...
Feb 27, 2025
Alberta government appoints Martin Long as new infrastructure minister
EDMONTON - Alberta has a new minister of infrastructure. Martin Long has been appointed to the cabinet post after the previous minister resigned earlier this week. Long, the member for West Yellowhead...
Feb 27, 2025
Hundreds of school support workers rally at legislature as Alberta releases budget
EDMONTON - Hundreds of striking school support workers marched through the streets of downtown Edmonton to the Alberta legislature on budget day and stood outside, waving signs, blowing horns and dema...
Feb 27, 2025
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawful
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions a...
Feb 27, 2025
B.C. solicitor general says Opposition operative took mentally ill man from care home
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Solicitor General is accusing the B.C. Conservative Party of involvement in removing a man from a mental-health facility against the wishes of his family as the Oppositio...
Feb 27, 2025
OPINION
Sarah Mills: A staged photo op in Team Canada jerseys can't hide the political cracks
As the western premiers meeting wrapped up in Kananaskis, Sarah Mills says the tensions were evident, and couldn't be hi...
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The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, May 27
8:30 - As the province sits under a heat wave, cities are now grappling with the worsening homelessness and overdose cri...