Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
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Supreme Court 'signed my son's death warrant,' mother says of refusal to hear plea
OTTAWA - The mother of a Canadian man detained in Syria says the Supreme Court of Canada has signed her son's death warrant by closing the door on a plea to hear his case. "I've been screaming about t...
Nov 04, 2024
Trucking, construction expect 'labour crisis' with new temporary worker rules
OTTAWA - Dominique Lamothe said the trucking firm she works for will be in trouble once new rules for high-wage temporary foreign workers take effect on Friday. Groupe Nadeau, a Quebec-based trucking ...
Nov 04, 2024
Quebec plans to force new doctors to stay in the province and work in public system
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is planning to force new doctors trained in the province to work in Quebec's public health-care system for the first few years of their practice, in a bid to slow the ...
Nov 04, 2024
Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana's congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won't hear arguments until e...
Nov 04, 2024
Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana's congressional map with two mostly Black districts. The court won't hear arguments until e...
Nov 04, 2024
New northern Alberta police service trying to lead by example
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - On the second floor of a building where most offices are without doors, the ceilings hang low and the carpets don't match, the chief of Grande Prairie's new police force gets d...
Nov 04, 2024
Oil, gas companies told to cut emissions by one-third under planned cap
OTTAWA - Oil and gas producers in Canada will be required to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about one-third over the next eight years under new regulations being published today by Environment Minist...
Nov 04, 2024 Upstream oil and gas operations, including production and refining, contributed about 31 per cent of Canada's total emissions in 2022. (650 CKOM file photo)
Poilievre asks premiers to axe sales tax on new homes worth under $1 million
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to the provinces' premiers, asking them to eliminate their sales taxes on new homes that are under $1 million. It follows Poilievre's own pled...
Nov 04, 2024
Nova Scotia Liberals release four-year, $2.3-billion election platform
HALIFAX - An ambitious target for housing and a replacement for federal carbon pricing are among the major promises contained in the Nova Scotia Liberals' election platform, which commits to $2.3 bill...
Nov 04, 2024
'Not for now,' says N.S. Tory leader regarding order-making power for info czar
HALIFAX - The leader of Nova Scotia's Progressive Conservatives made clear last week that if he's re-elected, a key change that he once supported to increase the power of the province's information co...
Nov 04, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Canada is getting a taste of FIFA's World Cup demands
Sarah Mills says a full motorcade with a police escort for the FIFA president is unnecessary, but it shows that the orga...
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