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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Immigration, housing to headline cabinet retreat in Halifax Monday
HALIFAX - Housing and immigration will take centre stage today as the federal cabinet retreat in Halifax moves into its first full day of meetings. The annual end-of-summer cabinet gathering is intend...
Aug 26, 2024
CN, CPKC to resume railway service Monday as work stoppage ends
OTTAWA - Traffic at Canada's two largest railways is slated to resume today as a rail work stoppage comes to an end following a Saturday decision from the federal labour board. Canadian National Railw...
Aug 26, 2024
Feds identify 56 government properties for conversion to affordable housing
HALIFAX - The federal government has added 56 properties to a new public lands bank of locations that are suitable for long-term leases so developers can build housing, a move the Housing Minister say...
Aug 25, 2024
Labour board orders rail workers back on the job, as Teamsters vow to appeal
The federal labour board has ordered thousands of rail employees back to work after a bitter contract dispute shut down the country's two major railways. The decision from the Canada Industrial Relati...
Aug 24, 2024 (Canadian Press)
'A victory': Canada halts planned deportation of bisexual man to Kenya
TORONTO - A bisexual man in Canada has been granted one-year temporary residency just a day before his scheduled deportation to Kenya - an outcome his supporters call "a victory for migrant and queer ...
Aug 24, 2024
Storm clouds still heavy around Liberals as cabinet meets for retreat in Halifax
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will kick off a three-day cabinet retreat in Halifax on Sunday, where the themes are fairness and Canada-U.S. relations, but the feelings are all about dj vu. A ...
Aug 24, 2024
Professor asks top court to review 'revolutionary' law curbing spy watchdog members
OTTAWA - A law professor is urging the Supreme Court of Canada to weigh the constitutionality of "revolutionary and unprecedented legislation" that limits members of a prominent spy watchdog from usin...
Aug 24, 2024
B.C. auditor general cites two 'significant errors' in government's final accounts
VICTORIA - The office of British Columbia's auditor general says he found two "significant errors" in the New Democrat government's year-end public financial statements, but the Ministry of Finance sa...
Aug 23, 2024
Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban - a development likely to drive more ...
Aug 23, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he's suspending his presidential bid and backing Donald Trump
PHOENIX (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for president Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, a late-stage shakeup of the presidential race that could give the former preside...
Aug 23, 2024
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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...